Richard - your post just came in and thanks for this clarification. It's
alos good news all the way around.
"Raney" Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I didn't
know Scott had a doctoral degree and I hope he was never offended that I
didn't address him with this title. I wonder what he's doing these days?
On 1/27/2015 2:01 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Bob Sneidar wrote:
>> On Jan 27, 2015, at 07:56 , Ray <ray at linkit.com> wrote:
>>
>> As I recall there's a limit to the number of lines in a script
>> which is set in a standalone. I thought it was 16 lines. This
>> limitation, if it still exists, is not documented in the
>> dictionary. Does anybody know what it is or if it got removed
>> with the advent of the community edition?
>
> I think the 16 line limit was for in line compilation, as in creating
> a list of commands and executing them with a do command. I do not
> think it means that every script in a standalone is limited to 16
> lines, and I believe that limit has been removed anyway, or else
> greatly increased.
The scriptLimits global property was originally invented to allow
MetaCard to deliver a demo version with no time limit. The limits were:
10 executable statements with "do", "value" or "set the script of...."
10 frontScripts
10 backScripts
50 libraries
Some were able to deliver complete working apps within those limits,
but Dr. Raney felt it was still a good balance because sooner or later
they'd get tired of the workarounds for such things and just get a
license.
Since the concept of having arbitrary limits on utility for licensing
purposes is incompatible with the GPL, the scriptLimits property was
removed from the Community Edition on first release of that version
(6.0 if memory serves).
After review, it was also removed from the Commercial edition as of
v6.7 - here's the bug report on that, with Mark Waddingham's comment:
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11797>
Having considered this for a while and based on feedback
from yourselves and others I can confirm that we will be
removing the scriptLimits from commercial in 6.7 onwards
(and thus 7.0). This change should take effect in the next
build after 6.7-dp-6 / 7.0-dp-8.
This is consistent with the design mandate of the two editions now
that LiveCode is open source, in which if there are any differences at
all they favor the Commercial so it represents a superset of Community
features.
That said, RunRev is sincere about their commitment to open source, so
Community is not "crippleware" at all: both engines have complete
feature parity across the board, with the only exceptions being
Commercial features which may be incompatible with the GPL. Currently
these are limited to Oracle database connectivity (since Oracle's
drivers are closed-source), and password-protected stacks (since
concealing source is incompatible with the GPL's mandate for free and
open sharing).
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