I'm sure that LC HQ would have loved to solely preside over the language and a flourishing opensource and enterprise community that kept the lights on . Unfortunately that just hasn't happened since the kickstarter campaign. Without the LCFM lifeline I think they may have ceased to exist in the medium term.
On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 2:08 PM Mike Kerner via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > poor comms don't make this better. one good thing about LCG was that we > had bi-monthly updates. this year, no comms. > i am less hopeful that the influx of new revenue will matter in the medium > term, because most of the effort will be on the requests that are tied to > the new revenue. > every time this has happened with any other tool we use here, we wait with > disappointment. then at any sign of effort, we get excited, and then we > seep back into disappointment. > it's feeling like it's time to back-burner LC, too. there is good energy > from about 50 people, but the mother ship is doing a poor job of managing > that energy. > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 5:56 AM Lagi Pittas via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > Hi Tom, > > > > It doesn't take a Sherlock home to work out that if (I hope when!) LCFM > > works out that the company will have > > an influx of "new blood" with the attendant large increase in yearly > > subscriptions. > > > > My very short post (cut down from my usual rants) was lobbing a tiny hand > > grenade in to arena, and see if someone at LCHQ > > bites and tells us something of consequence rather than "it's going well" > > or LC will be the better for all the new stuff they are working on. > > > > Surely if they have some extra money coming in they can have someone > > working on finishing all the (paid for) promises and milestones. > > (HH and Sean I feel your pain - HTML5 anyone?). I'm reading between the > > lines but Trevor probably knows how well it's doing - but the rest of use > > are being treated like mushrooms. > > > > "Soon" can be years rather than months and weeks - and typically is > years. > > For example Filemaker has a precision of 16 to 400 digits. So that MUST > > have been coded for, will we get that retrofitted in the future . > > I'm not asking because I need 400 digits but you never know. > > > > Filemaker has data binding and field Validation. > > > > > https://fmhelp.filemaker.com/help/16/fmp/en/#page/FMP_Help%2Ffield-validation.html%23 > > > > (I could do that in Clipper in 1985 with field masks). Yes I've rolled my > > own but their are things better done as a standard in an LC library. > > > > When is the IDE that still crashes at least 4 times a day whenever I run > > through more than 5 breakpoints in succession,going to get some love. > > What about the Script Editor being SLOWER than molasses - 4 seconds > between > > key presses. > > What about Sqlite engine/library, the 2D physics where we were told there > > was a working version over a year ago. The Sound on Linux. What about the > > raspberry PI version. I shouldn't need to go on. > > > > I want LCFM to work like the next guy but please tell us what is going > on > > and when. > > > > I'd rather base my decisions on facts rather than airy fairy words. > > > > Are more programmers coming on board or is LCFM the new shiny object? > > > > > > <RANT ON> > > Sorry for the Mr Angry tone , but I'm a little (make that very irritated) > > at the moment, as I just got off the phone to the Bank where the Zombie > > script reader who asked me 8 (countem EIGHT questions) to get me past > > security > > and I was only phoning up to ask why my Card Readers hadn't arrived. > > People can have £70,000 taken out of their accounts with just a sortcode, > > name and account number and I am asked for 8 pieces of information to ask > > where the card readers that were ordered nearly 3 weeks ago were!!! > > </RANT OFF> > > > > Regards Lagi > > > > p.s. > > > > Two Card readers turned up after my call. - Two more are on their way. > > Maybe if i look at downloads ther might be a version 10 Stable of > Livecode > > ;-) > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 23:25, Tom Glod via use-livecode < > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > > We all need livecode the company to be stable and profitable, so if > they > > > have to temporarily focus on x to create long term viability, then they > > > should do it. Maybe just let everyone know what the plan is....and > maybe > > on > > > a release with multiple bug fixes such as 9.05 is important to > prioritize > > > it a little bit. > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 3:17 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < > > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On 10/2/19 11:24 AM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote: > > > > > > > > > I suspect that the quick updates to LiveCode FM are a sign that the > > > > launch > > > > > at the FileMaker conference generated a lot of interest and there > is > > > some > > > > > momentum building there. Perhaps they are trying to quickly fill in > > the > > > > > gaps based on that interest so that they can close more licensing > > > deals? > > > > If > > > > > that is the case and they can build that revenue source then it > > should > > > > > ultimately be a good thing for those of us who don't use LiveCode > FM. > > > It > > > > is > > > > > unfortunate that LC has to sit mostly idle for so long though. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Indeed. There are currently some 200 or so pull requests waiting in > the > > > > queue for action. > > > > > > > > I'm encouraged by this: > https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/7185 > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Mark Wieder > > > > ahsoftw...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Tom Glod > > > Founder & Developer > > > MakeShyft R.D.A (www.makeshyft.com) > > > Office:226-706-9339 > > > Mobile:226-706-9793 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > -- > On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth > On the second day, God created the oceans. > On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, > and did a little diving. > And God said, "This is good." > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
