On 16/04/14 15:21, Richard Gaskin wrote:
There's a recent Dr. Dobbs article about the historically bad record
the software industry has for delivering accurate estimates:
<http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/software-estimation-how-misperceptions-m/240166474>
While your estimates may be consistently spot-on, it seems RunRev's
estimates are more in line with industry averages.
To see what the team is up to the Road Map offers useful guidance:
<http://livecode.com/community/roadmap/>
No mention, as far as I can see, of the new GUI.
There we see four major categories of tasks, broken into two groups.
The first group consists of three "strands", related sets of tasks
that form a foundation on which the second group, labeled "Queued",
can the be implemented.
The IDE work is one of the three strands, and a team is currently
working on it.
As Community Manager, part of this role requires me to bring concerns
from the community to the core dev team. My next meeting with them is
tomorrow. and I'll make this an item on that agenda, encouraging the
IDE team to provide an update on their work in the new UI.
With the engine so very much in flux as we move toward v7, we can
expect that work in the IDE has been somewhat hampered by the need to
complete that version, so I don't imagine they're at a stage where we
can expect nifty screen shots and such quite yet.
But I'll see what info I can find and either the team or myself with
provide you some info on where they are with that.
Thank you very much indeed. The main thing, as far as I'm concerned at
least, is not how long it takes
(lesson number 1: everything takes longer than one's estimates), but
that it has not been quietly dropped.
As self-appointed gadfly I do find myself, from time to time, stinging a
bit, largely owing to things that
probably are happening, but the "Great Livecode Public" are not being
adequately informed
about.
Richmond.
--
Richard Gaskin
<snip>
After rather more than a year this is quite fun to look at again:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1755283828/open-source-edition-of-livecode
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However, one quite significant question pops up:
"We will introduce a *new visual editor* designed around today's
usability standards. The editor will be open. The more technical
members of our community can create simplified versions of the
editor for tablets or primary schools."
When? "Final Delivery. Fall 2013" Aha; of course.
Has this been dropped without us having been informed?
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