On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Richmond <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14/12/14 18:30, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >> >> > If I do roll back, though, it's not going to be to wait for 7, but to get >> by until I figure out how to transfer my effort to another platform >> entirely. >> > > "wait for 7" sounds odd as we, supposedly, have "7" as a done deal already. "supposedly" being the magic word. Calling any 7 to date "beta" would be geerous, at best. > Frankly, If I could roll back the clock two and a half years, I'd choose > >> something else. Supercard 1.5 and Hypercard 2.0, with the addition of >> database support, could have handled what I need (I can say that with >> certainty because I actually implemented essentially the same program on >> both twenty years ago, using cards in a stack as the "database"). >> > I think your 'gripes' are because you have got onto the "constantly > upgrading" > conveyor belt, which, in my experience causes little but grief. > > My production work takes place on a 2005 G5 Macintosh running Livecode 4.5 > on Mac OS 10.5.8. > > I do my "Livecode playtime" on a machine running a recent Linux version > and all Open Source versions of LC > up to and including 7.0.1 rc3 - but I certainly would NOT transfer all my > Pismo, Grendel and Devawriter code > to anything more than 4.5 which has served me extremely well for the last > 5 years. > I have no "playtime" for livecode; this is pure production work, replacing something that worked for my own use. *I* can do more with a spreadsheet than I ever could with livecode or another pure programming platform; I bought livecoe to implement for other people. My purposes are purely commercial, and I had no qualms about the $1k/year for the developer license & suppot. And then with kickstarterer, the working and stable version--for which I'm licensed forever--is pretty much abandoned; end of life from before the extra years. > > I am well aware that most people need something more contemporary than > what I use, > but my advice would be to find something that works (e.g. LC 5.5) on a > system that works, and > stick with it as long as possible. > At which point there's no reason for my having continued with newer licenses . . . If livecode wants to be *commercial* license rather than a toy, it needs to put out commercial grade software. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
