Hiya,
The Player makes distribution easier, as in there not being a need to
download and install revMedia in order to see the stacks: Slaps the
stacks onto a USB stick with the Player and can show it off to anyone
without having to get them to 'have to' install revMedia.
Cheers,
Luis.
On 12 Nov 2009, at 20:32, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Jan Schenkel wrote:
With revMedia 4.0 being free, why would we still need a Player?
The whole idea of giving revMedia away for free, is to let
everyone share in the fun - running stacks, deploying them in
webpages and letting others take them apart without the ability to
password-protect your scripts.
Don't panic, revStudio and revEnterprise can still password-
protect scripts and these stacks will work just fine in revMedia.
But revMedia is about sharing with the rest of the world, and
getting more people to try out the revPlatform for themselves.
I can think of one reason why one might want a Player:
Imagine a cash-strapped teacher designing a stack with revMedia;
they might think it a bit too much to expect students to go through
the whole jingbang of registering for revMedia, downloading it
and installing it a bit of a clunky way to deliver a "quick-n-dirty"
educational "media-bite".
this might also be applied in situations where there are a number of
students with computers who do not have internet access (this, oddly
enough, is always overlooked when these arguments come up).
A Player/Runner + stack will have less of a footprint than revMedia
+ stack
As an advocate of equipping the under-privileged in this world with
old computers I believe that a Player/Runner is essential; especially
one that will run stacks on forms of Linux.
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To personalise this I would like to point out that, while I own
Rev Studio 4 it does not work on my Pentium 3s running Ubuntu 5.10;
nor does revMedia 4.
I have yet to find out how standalones made with 4 'do' on these
computers;
It may well be that they are just too RAM-hungry to function;
a Player/Runner might solve this problem.
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