revAppVersion = 0

[J. Landman Gay]

On 7/19/04 7:26 PM, Wouter wrote:

> proposal: revAppVersion = 0
> Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
> Mon Jul 19 17:39:49 EDT 2004
> 
>> As I've written here before, in general I have no interest in adding Rev
>> glue routines to the IDE.  We choose to work in MC when we want only
>> built-in messages and built-in properties, and anything not in the
>> engine is of our own making, completely under our control.
>>
>> That said, it occurs to me that it's difficult for a script to determine
>> whether it's running in the Rev IDE or the MC IDE, which may be
>> especially useful when making plugins for use in both.
> 
> 
> 
> Determining running in the Rev IDE or in the MC IDE is easy.
> 
>         put  "license.rev" is in the effective filename of stack "home" 
> into tRunningRev
> or
>         if   "license.rev" is in the effective filename of stack "home" 
>  then ...

I do it the other way around:

  if "metacard menu bar" is in the openstacks then...

But I don't see any reason not to add the single-line function that 
Richard suggests. It's okay with me either way.


>> Of course, the Pure Transcript approach will avoid that altogether:
>> know the engine, trust the engine, use the engine, and all will always
>> work everywhere.
>>
>> But for folks that work in both from time to time there may be useful
>> reasons for using some Rev libraries, and if so there should be a simple
>> and reliable way to determine whether the Rev IDE is present.
>>
>> So I'm proposing that I add this very simple function the the MC IDE
>> backscript:
>>
>> function revAppVersion
>>     return "0"
>> end revAppVersion
>>
>> This function follows the convention established by the qtVersion
>> function, returning a version number if present (this function is
>> available in the Rev IDE) or "0" if not.
>>
>> It's only three lines, and doesn't add any new messages or properties.
>>
>> Shall I add it?
>>
>> -- 
>>   Richard Gaskin
>>   Fourth World Media Corporation
> 
> 
> 
> By all means do.
> 
> Greetings,
> WA
> 
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