Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote:
With so many Rev conferences this year I keep daydreaming that someone will start an open source presentation tool and runtime library in Transcript. Any chance we could toss one together in time to make all of our presentations for Malta? :)
Michael J. Lew proposed, some time ago, to create such tool with RR/MC.
Do you think that it'll be possible to create a site that holds the progress of some RR jointed development projects, similar to SourceForge?
In that way developers could CHOOSE to contribute hours of their scarse time to help in the advance of some project of their interest.
I'll like that developers in the SuperCard platform port the handlers for importing Adobe ilustrator files to their platform.
But, that has not happened yet.
I'll like that more developers work with the handlers that export to pdf...
This will not be possible without a central place to put all the projects, in a single site, where all developers become aware of the state of development in every project.
"not possible" may be a little strong. After all, you cite SuperCard, and they generally use their Yahoo Group for trading files. A lot of open source projects live at Yahoo Groups, including the MC IDE, libIPC, and others.
As I wrote in <http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2004-September/044804.html>, managing files is the easy part of running an open source project. It can be as simple any a plain ol' file repository.
But if you really want to encourage both efficient work and broad community, why not do it as a Rev stack? After all, sooner or later you'll want to integrate it with your stack files anyway.
I'd be happy to add a new section to RevNet for it if you think that would be helpful. Since RevNet is bundled with Rev your stuff could be instantly available to everyone the moment you post it. Drop me a note offline if that's of interest and we can work out the details.
But whether RevNet or some other stack, ultimately the more useful component of such a project will be a stack rather than a browser page. It's HTTP you're after, not necessarily a separate browser application disconnected from your workflow.
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