IMHO the way to continue supporting the base users as well as
advanced users is through add-on libraries and plugins. And I don't mean only those coming from RunRev itself but from 3rd parties. However, the developers of such libraries must be able to get money for them if they wish. Look for example at REALbasic and the zillion of plugins offered for it, some free, some shareware, some commercial. We got several fantastic libraries from a few montivated Rev users but it is not enough. RunRev could put some effort into addressing issues and obstacles and encourage such efforts in various ways.
Part of the issue is perceptual: while there are a great many valuable libraries for Rev from third parties like Shao Sean, Chipp Walters, and others, most of those are in RevNet and on the author's web site but not at download sites like Tucows, VersionTracker, etc.
With some other development systems everytime an author sneezes in that language they make a press release and post the sneeze to VersionTracker.
Thus far, the only Rev components I've seen at VersionTracker were Blue Mango's QuickTime externals. Few if any of the other dozens of libraries and tools posted in RevNet have also been posted to VersionTracker, and I rarely see press releases for such things.
I believe there's a developer liason at RunRev who would be happy to issue joint releases for such things. If you put out a library consider dropping a note to Heather to see what would be needed to issue a joint press release.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
