Re: Livecode server UNIX version (not Linux).

2020-10-31 Thread doc hawk via use-livecode
heriberto harrumphed >3) Today's macOS is descended from NeXT (which Apple acquired and > transitioned macOS to in 1999) And they got a free Jobs to go with it! Or did they buy a Jobs, and get a free OS. I’ve never quite been clear . . > 6) The Mach microkernel was replaced with the App

Re: Livecode server UNIX version (not Linux).

2020-10-31 Thread Heriberto Torrado via use-livecode
Richard, Brian thank you very much, I read about this Livecode execution method a time ago and found it amazing. Livecode is an amazing product! So, these are my thoughts: 1) It seems we can run a Livecode headless binary on BSD using the Linux compatibility layer. Is that so? 2) How difficul

Re: Livecode server UNIX version (not Linux).

2020-10-31 Thread Heriberto Torrado via use-livecode
Not very sure, but months ago I read this (but he seems to talk about BSD user utils more than the Kernel). https://www.quora.com/Is-macOS-considered-to-be-a-BSD-UNIX Yes, Apple’s macOS can be considered to be a BSD UNIX.    1) Apple’s macOS is an officially certified UNIX, that takes care of

Re: Livecode server UNIX version (not Linux).

2020-10-31 Thread Heriberto Torrado via use-livecode
Hi Richard, Although I love UNIX, I think this is a much better point. Looking at the feedback comments I have realized that porting Livecode to BSD may not be worth it. However, I think it is critical for our community to be able to run Livecode scripting on IOT devices. IOT and Edge comp

Re: mergeJSON on server problem

2020-10-31 Thread David Bovill via use-livecode
Thanks Mark - I may give fastjson a go. I tracked down the problem to the "\u00a0” unicode character in the json I fetched, which was causing mergeJSON to fail. This hack fixed the issue in a temporary way. replace "\u00a0” with empty in episodeJson -- hack to remove "¬" Any thoughts on

Re: mergeJSON on server problem

2020-10-31 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 10/31/20 10:27 AM, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote: I use mergeJSON to move back an forth between json and arrays for web services. It’s currently failing when I fetch json data from another source on the Ubuntu server, while the same code and data works on MacoS - presumably due to some

mergeJSON on server problem

2020-10-31 Thread David Bovill via use-livecode
I use mergeJSON to move back an forth between json and arrays for web services. It’s currently failing when I fetch json data from another source on the Ubuntu server, while the same code and data works on MacoS - presumably due to some encoding issues. It’s a large amount of data and I can’t d