In the light of my recent experience with Livecode 8 RC1 I find
something a bit worrying.
Presumably what happened means that anyone who wishes to use Livecode 8
on Linux is either:
1. Going to have to set up a plain, vanilla user account specifically
for Livecode.
1.1. This is going to be a pain in the b** if the developer relies on
other installed software
to get his/her job done; involving constant logging in_&-out of
2 user accounts.
or
2. Spending donkey's ages on some elaborate triage system working out
which component
a developer has installed on her/his system is mucking about with
Livecode 8 and then expunging it.
As I am spoilt insofar as I have never had any software on any type of
Linux [beyond some
Windows executables playing "silly monkeys" under WINE] ever behave like
this before [parts of
a GUI not appearing], this makes me wonder if RC1 still has a long, long
way to go until it reaches
anything approaching a stable release.
Having "played" with Livecode 8 DP 15 & 16 on Windows 7 I am excited
about the new capabilities
of version 8; and it would seem a very great shame if it is going to be
unable to "play nicely" with
Linux.
Richmond.
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