On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I don't think SOS is the main future. I think it gives us another option. I don't think it will *ever* be a full-fledged option until stacks themselves can be saved as text files for use with standard revision control and patching. The most it can due is take a chink out of the corner. And on the value of those . . . As I was nearing the end of my dissertation, and had a visiting spot for the following year lined up, with a $10k difference between waiting for paperwork (assistant prof) and ABD (instructor), my wife had to go to California to help her sister's family during her first cancer. I had to drive out to pick them up, and lost my transmission in Omaha (really, It *does* happen outside of country songs). I had a laptop with an older version of my dissertation with me, and hard-copy of the current version with advisor comments (between two majors in my Ph.D. and working outside the departments, I had three advisors). Because (and only because) LyX and LaTeX are text format, I was able to simply edit the obsolete copy and use diff to make a comparison, and apply patch to the most recent copy, and actually get two days work out of the two days I spent stranded. More commonly, until and unless livecode can save such that such standard tools or comparable can be applied, multi-person development will remain a fantasy and/or novelty. I've come to accept that the next major rewrite of my software is going to have to be in something else (Swift?) so that I can add developers, as well as the inability to actually put a pdf or eps on a card (just a bitmap of it won't do); livecode just doesn't seem to me doing towards such a direction. Yes, I understand the desire to stay true to the hypercard model, but as-is, I don't see livecode as a viable solution to a project larger than the indy limits. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
