From: "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You're welcome to do it at revJournal.com if you like. I can set up your
own FTP account and you can do whatever you like in that section.
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Scott Kane wrote:
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 w
From: "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 possibl
David Bovill wrote:
On 09/06/07, J. Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could I convince you to take your current energy
and apply it to something like this?
No problem! But I am not going to do this manually - cut and paste style -
so it needs to be integrated into the IDE - with a Rev
On 09/06/07, J. Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could I convince you to take your current energy
and apply it to something like this?
No problem! But I am not going to do this manually - cut and paste style -
so it needs to be integrated into the IDE - with a Rev based plugin - so
tha
OK - I'll make a start tonight. With regard to SourceForge it is not
possible to link their repositories directly into the Script Editor but now
that they have SVN - I can mirror code to SourceForge easily.
Does anyone have a preference for an initial library - something to start
with. My vote wo
David Bovill wrote:
OK - lets give it a try. The web site is up, but I figure it is of little
use until it is integrated into the script editor which is partly done...
I'll work on that now. I guess a question is which library to get up
first -
I'll dig up the list of existing libraries and se
I'd certainly add my bits and pieces to such a repository
Best,
Mark
On 9 Jun 2007, at 19:25, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Scott Kane wrote:
A large repository detailing various code snippets and stacks
would be very happy - especially to newer users initially - and in
time helpful to others
Scott Kane wrote:
A large repository detailing various code snippets and
stacks would be very happy - especially to newer users initially - and
in time helpful to others. Finding all the cool sites with code is no
mean feat when starting out. While this is one of the best programming
lists I k
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.
On 09/06/07, Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, there is an online code repository ac
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:17:41 +1000, Scott Kane wrote:
> To:
>
>> Aren't there quite a number of open-source repositries around? What
>> about Hugh Senior's "Scripter's Scrapbook" and the many sample
>> stacks available from the sites of Rev and Metacard users or on
>> RevOnLine?
>
> Perhaps
From: "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Provided of course the license for such code allowed them to use it.
With literally hundreds of FOSS licenses floating around and new ones
being written each week, and considering few if any of these have been
tested in court to they are in the end l
Scott Kane wrote:
Ah - but that's quite another thing. A repositry of code as opposed to Rev
being open source. I think a lot of people would be quite happy to visit a
repositry of code (and use the code).
Provided of course the license for such code allowed them to use it.
With literally h
To:
Aren't there quite a number of open-source repositries around? What about
Hugh Senior's "Scripter's Scrapbook" and the many sample stacks available
from the sites of Rev and Metacard users or on RevOnLine?
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Guess it depends on one's perspective. I find
RevOnline
On Sat Jun 9 09:15:49 CDT 2007, Scott Kane scott at cdroo.com
Ah - but that's quite another thing. A repositry of code as opposed
to Rev
being open source. I think a lot of people would be quite happy to
visit a
repositry of code (and use the code).
Scott Kane
Aren't there quite a numb
From: "David Bovill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
That is not what I tried to say - my assumption is the opposite. That
there
are not enough people interested in a shared open source repository to
make
the effort worth while - that is I assume that the silent majority
disagree
with my view on the bene
From: "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wow! That guy's the definition of prolific. Wonder when he sleeps?
Real programmers don't need sleep. You know that, Chipp!
Scott
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On 09/06/07, Scott Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A "subset of the list". No offence intended, David. But why is it that
when people get really passionate about their favourite wheel barrow that
they are pushing that they so often seem to assume that the "silent
majority" agree with them
On 6/8/07, Scott Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
www.torry.net
Here's a summary of what the site holds in terms of source code, products
etc:
Authors total: 4179
Products total: 8703
Files total: 10330
Wow! That guy's the definition of prolific. Wonder when he sleeps?
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Authors total: 4179
Products total: 8703
Files total: 10330
I hit send to quickly. I meant to add - imagine that on a per-capita scale
for Rev. I can, frankly. I'd like to see it happen. Free source snippets,
commercial (for sale) source snippets, libraries etc et al. Would Rev users
p
From: "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I remember it well as I had spent a bunch of time creating it, only to end
up killing it based upon your loud objections of being there first. I
expected great things from your subsequent offering-- which never came
('in
2 weeks' was what you said). M
On 6/8/07, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ah - way back. though I dont remember anything about RROpenSource.
Actually
I did set up a project on SourceForge,
I remember it well as I had spent a bunch of time creating it, only to end
up killing it based upon your loud objections of be
From: "David Bovill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Maybe that was a mistake, and all it ever takes it pig headed stubborness
and following through - but without encouraging signs from RunRev itself
or
a subset of the list - well maybe its not such a good idea after all?
A "subset of the list". No off
On 08/06/07, Chipp Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/8/07, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In 2002, I built an website titled "RROpenSource" which had the ability
for
users to contribute Open Source RR projects online. Ready to launch, I
disclosed it only to a few, I believe you i
On 6/8/07, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There are reasons that there are very very few robust
developer contributed libraries in our community while there are good ones
in python and ruby, and OK ones in php. This can and should change, and a
carefully planned open source strategy wou
On 08/06/07, Andre Garzia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Good OSS is here to solve a problem. Usually a problem that is not
being solved by the mainstream players. The good ones are also managed
like a "enterprise", so again, what is the problem that an OSS RunRev
would solve? I see nothing wrong ri
I don't believe that SF and Freshmeat numbers can really be trusted.
They measure activity based on interaction with their site using some
math. Most OSS software also have their own page with mirrors and the
like, this traffic and interaction is not measured by SF or Freshmeat.
I think that the
Wow! Thaks for the post Chipp - always good to have some hard facts.
2000 out of *150,114* projects - really is that all? That makes 2/150 - or
less that 1% of projects! I would have guessed it as more like 20%
How many non-open source software projects end up in the scrap heap - more
of less t
Chipp rightly points out that there are very many open source projects which
are started, and then wither. He points to the 2,000 or so low activity
projects on SourceForge. He could also point to a high proportion of the
distributions on DistroWatch.
On the other hand, in programming envi
A quick search at sourceforge shows close to 2000 projects with less than
10% activity. So, it appears at least a healthy part of Open Source
projects
may end up exactly as Paul is suggesting.
Or an "unhealthy" part ;-)
Scott
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On 6/7/07, Peter Alcibiades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The world is just not the way you are suggesting it is, and it is so
obviously
not that way, that there is little point in asserting it is.
A quick search at sourceforge shows close to 2000 projects with less than
10% activity. So, it a
Look, I don't want to get us off into off-topic flame wars, and I don't think
necessarily that going Open Source is the answer for Rev, or that it would
have been for HC. Its worth serious consideration is all I would argue.
But you have to say that these remarks really misrepresent the Open So
As a team member of one of the longest-running Rev-based open source
projects, the MC IDE, I share much of the enthusiasm for the benefits of
the process and, with more than a dozen others, have translated that
enthusiasm into action.
But on balance, I believe a lot of that success is due to t
lopment was
done for the last 19 years
Paul Looney
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From: David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Imagine a world in which HyperCard had been open sourced 20
years ago?
How would the world of softw
How would the world of software languages that we know of now be different?
Perhaps:
1. Visual Basic would not have had the success that it did as
companies re-hacked HyperTalk to fit their business needs
2. We'd have got colour and video and object orientation well ahead of
the competit
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