J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/23/2016 3:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> In your copious free time would you be able to update the MetaCard >> Setup stack as well? > > Is anyone still using that? Didn't we EOL it?
I'm not sure anyone ever declared it officially dead, but since the former maintainers haven't updated it in years and no one's complained since I suppose that tells us all we need to know about whether it's worth updating. :)
In my case I used it twice last year to handle migration of some very old data in stacks that were dependent on MC IDE stacks.
Yesterday I ran MetaCard Setup just to see if it would work in v8, and was surprised it didn't; seems something changed in the boot sequence since v6.x where I last ran it successfully.
My only current interest is as a possible foundation for folks to use to make other tools from. If made into a plugin it would bypass the need for a completely separate install, and since it's licensed under MIT it's compatible with both the Community and proprietary editions of LC.
But I think the licensing is about all it has going for it. The UI is so spartan and lacking support for gradients, graphic effects, etc., that it may be simpler to build a completely new UI from scratch than to money with what's there.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ 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
