On 27/11/15 00:19, Fraser Gordon wrote:
On 26/11/15 20:24, Richmond wrote:
Aah, so the team isn't going to bother to listen to the Community
because it wants to do other things;
so it is chucking the Application Browser out to grass.
I'm not sure I follow. The application browser isn't going anywhere.
If it works for you already, why refine it any further?
It is probably working fine at the moment; but, by hiving it off into the
Plug-ins it means that no further development is likely to be done on
it, and, as new features
in LiveCode are implemented it may be that it will no longer keep up
with those
developments.
If it doesn't meet your needs then wouldn't resources be better spent
improving one tool to meet everybody's needs than trying to keep two
at feature parity?
On the other hand, the LiveCode community contains many outstanding
developers. If you have an idea on how to make the AB better, please
go ahead and do so. Moving the AB to a plugin rather than a core part
of the IDE makes this much easier, both to develop and distribute (for
example, making it more difficult to break the IDE!). I'd be delighted
if someone makes an Application Browser++ Awesome Edition plugin.
The future of LiveCode is extensibility and 8 is the first step on
that journey. Widgets are one part. Making the IDE pluggable is another.
In short, the change to a plugin is a structural change, not an
abandonment.
I hope so.
However, time will tell.
Fraser
Richmond.
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