On 2015-09-09 05:38, Mark Wieder wrote:
4. My pull request was passive-aggressively not accepted because "there's no way to review the changes".
I think you should perhaps look at the title of your post for an example of passive-aggressiveness, rather than Ali's perfectly measured and appropriate response to your pull request :)
We have been clear about what we can and cannot accept at this time as community contributions.
We have been clear about what branch we would pull feature additions into (that would be the develop branch which is 8).
We have been clear about the amount of work we have done on the IDE to improve the situation in 8 - i.e. turning as much of the IDE as possible into script only stacks.
In regards to binary stackfile contributions - I'm sorry but we simply cannot accept them at this time. I think the community would be rather unhappy if we did accept a binary stackfile contribution in which someone had planted something nefarious that we did not see and ended up adversely affecting their local systems on install in some heinous way.
Now, I'm not saying there is not a solution to this - but we don't have one right now. How far off is a solution? I honestly don't know.
So, it seems to me, the best solution *right now* is that we all work on the develop branch and therefore LC8. The develop branch IDE has a substantial number of script only stacks which makes contribution (and also in house changes - I should add!) a lot lot easier and more transparent *and* it is only one branch to focus on so if a binary change is required, a LiveCode engineer only has to go through and do the necessary work once (which, I'd point out Ali quite happily did with the contribution in question).
Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps _______________________________________________ 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
