Dave LeYanna wrote:
I may well be that RunRev has matured enough and has a diversified enough following to warrant a few separate lists.
It's already happened:
- use-revolution: This list, general discussion about using Transcript and the Rev IDE
- improve-revolution: discussion for Enterprise license holders about advances feature requests, defining them there before submitting them to Bugzilla
- RevDocs <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevDocs/>: Working group to create, refine, and present recommendations for improving documentation from RunRev and possibly third parties as well.
- MetaCard list <http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard> Working group for the ongoing enhancement of the MetaCard IDE
- Revolution IPC <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revolution_ipc/>: Working group for an open source library to provide inter- process communication between Rev-built apps using TCP.
- Revolution Board DE <http://www.revolutionboard.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl>: German-language discussion of Revolution.
- revJournal <http://www.revjournal.com/>: While not a discussion list per se, it is the premier webzine for Revolution developers and has some feedback discussion from readers there.
- xTalks <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xTalks/>: Discussion on refining proposals for new language extensions with the aim of encouraging all xTalk vendors to implement new language features consistently across products.
- SoCal Rev <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/socalrev/>: Discussion for planning meetings of the Southern California Rev User Group.
- Rev Interop <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revInterop/>: New working group for defining a standard for handling component metadata in software developed with Rev.
There may be others as well. I've heard tell of an education-focused list, but couldn't find it. It might be useful to start one.
Remember that the Transcript community is more than 14 years old; while Revolution was born a few years ago, the MetaCard technology on which it's based was born in 1992. Given the maturity and breadth of the ever-evolving community, it's not surprising that there are so many venues for discussing different aspects of programming with Rev. It's like dining at a restaurant that serves one main dish and has a broad range to choose from on the desert tray.
Dreamcard is positioned as a very different product from Rev, addressing a very different audience. If for no other reason than to help RunRev's positioning of the product, I think it would be useful to have a new list focused on that product. There may be other good reasons as well, and as we see it would not be without precedent. :)
I have no doubt that a good many of the contributors here will also subscribe to that list.
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