Following LiveCode’s announcement of its Business Application Framework, there
has been quite a few comments regarding the fulfilment of promises made during
the Kickstarter open source campaign. It’s a long time since the campaign and
it is easy to get an incorrect perception. So I thought that it would be worth
going back, seeing what was promised and what had been delivered.
I’ve come up with a report card based on the Kickstarter web pages, LiveCode’s
road map and from comments made on the mailing lists and forums by LiveCode
staff. I relied on my memory for the latter so the status that I’ve noted may
not be quite correct. By posting it to the mailing list, I’m sure that any
misperceptions I might have will get corrected. I hope so as I much prefer to
have a clear picture of where things stand.
The first thing to note is that all the Kickstarter rewards have been delivered.
There seems to have been three major deliverables promised in the main campaign:
Deliverable Status
Re-engineer the whole platform Completed
A new technology: “Open Language” Early alpha of the
pre-requisite LiveCode Builder released (LiveCode 8.0)
Open Language
will be in a release after LiveCode 8.0
A new visual editor Early alpha released
(LiveCode 8.0)
There were a number of deliverables promised through stretch goals which were
met:
Deliverable Status
Resolution Independence Completed
Pluggable Themes Pluggable Themes will
be in a release after LiveCode 8.0
Cocoa Completed
Physics Engine Physics Engine will be
in a release after LiveCode 8.0
Windows/Phone 8 Theme Windows/Phone 8 Theme will be
in a release after LiveCode 8.0
Vector Shape Object Vector Shape Object
will be in a release after LiveCode 8.0
Reworked Multimedia Support
New Player Completed on OS X.
Windows/Linux ???
Multi Channel Sound OS X : Linux : Windows
???
Sound Recording ???
New Browser Control OS X, Windows
completed. Linux with LiveCode 8.0
I’d appreciate if somebody could let me know the status of the items about
which I’m unclear and any mistakes I have made.
Regards
Peter
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