(Was in Re: Imagine a world in which HyperCard had been open sourced 20 years ago?)
David, Ken, Chipp, Jacque et al, As a mature product, the Scripter's Scrapbook is certainly an option for a front-end repository given its flexibility to store hard-wired content (in the form of Entries with or without embedded files), or hyperlinks to local, networked or on-line resources, or indeed any combination. And, as Ken points out, there is already an online 'private' code repository for ssBk users. I would *love* to link ssBk to an 'open' code repository. There are a couple of ways which immediately come to mind, and I'm always happy to discuss options and implement requests if they are do-able. David: You were going to look into using the existing ssBk API to see if that already gives you the keys you need. Did you get anywhere? Perhaps contact me off-list? /H FLCo Home of The Scripter's Scrapbook www.ssbk.co.uk David Bovill wrote: > Ken - I talked to Hugh about doing this work before going off to the states. > I am back now, and quite happy to mirror "Scripter's Scrapbook" to the web > backend I've got up - if Hugh is still up for that. Ken Ray wrote: > Well, there is an online code repository accessible through the > Scripters Scrapbook with 69 entries in it at the moment, and my > intention was to mirror those entries on the web, but I haven't had the > time. Having it in the Scrapbook though is more useful as it uses a > consistent format, is categorized by language, author, etc. Chipp Walters wrote: > David, > Perhaps a good start would be creating your own website and posting your > code there with the appropriate license and disclaimers. Start with only a > few. As people become comfortable with using your libraries, you can start > adding more. It doesn't have to be a large project unless you really want it > to be. Jacque wrote: > I would love to see this happen. Preferably, the site would be at a > common, public repository (SourceForge, maybe?) so that even non-Rev > people would perhaps stumble across it. This would not only give us a > single place to find everything, but possibly increase Revolution's > exposure to the general public, which would be a very good thing. > > Even though I read the list religiously and have lots of bookmarks to > various Rev sites, it is still hard to remember whose site has what and > even whether anyone has written a library or plugin for what I need. > RevOnline doesn't offer a good search mechanism, so I'm not sure what is > there unless I browse through hundreds of entries. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
