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[Richard Gaskin]

Robert Brenstein wrote:

> Well, there is a consensus that the IDE should be available for
> downloads separately from engines, so you are inline with others
> here. However, there were a couple suggestions to have engines
> (separately from IDE) for downloads from SourceForge. This will allow
> us to keep an archive of older engines and avoid potential troubles
> when Rev updates the engine but for whatever reason MC IDE should
> continue to be used with the previous version of the engine. It is
> not likely scenerio but surely plausible, particularly during
> transition periods. One should keep in mind that each version of MC
> IDE is coupled to the engine through version number check, so each
> engine update will require modification to IDE.

The version-checking in the IDE can (and arguably should) change.

There's already an archive of engines out there.  I have no trouble linking
to it, but would prefer not to have to maintain such an archive myself if
possible.

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