Hi Max, Yes, we all owe a lot to Jamal; however, it's not that his apps have been downgraded in importance, but more that he's involved in many many projects, and he's only one person (and last I knew employed full time as well as all that he does, always for free).
So, I don't think he's had much time for maintenance of his apps. Still, as Kevin points out, they usually still work just fine; surprisingly, amazingly well given how little maintenance he's done since releasing them. I wish my apps worked that well with no maintenance! Chip -----Original Message----- From: Max G. Swanson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 11:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: When Apps Were Scripts Back at the dawn of W.E. scripting, a whole bunch of scripts were done by JaMal mazrui, author of EdSharp among others. These included Homer Shared Object, not Home Shared Object BTW. It served as a support to other scripts, much as GW Toolkit does today. Among these scripts was Polyglot. It did use Google at first. What a shame that Google got greedy and didn't allow an API to make limited use of its service. Anyway, all these scripts for some reason have been replaced or downgraded in importance, though they worked well. "Lookup Term" is another example. I hope we will see a fuller reintegration of these as apps, since lots of work was put in so there'd be seed scripts to download in those early days, which were not after all that long ago. -- "Volume in Drive A has no label." .Regards, Max. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
