MC IDE v2.6b12

[Richard Gaskin]

Robert Brenstein wrote:
>> For copyright reasons we can't include Rev's handlers directly in the 
>> MC IDE distribution.  We can, however, create a library importer. 
>> Currently one needs Rev anyway to get the engine, and with some of the 
>> changes in an upcoming release of Rev it may be beneficial to require 
>> a Rev install somewhere on the drive to draw parts from anyway.
>>
>> I would rather wait for the next Rev release before adding such a 
>> critter to MC, but in the meantime if someone wants to make a plugin 
>> for importing Rev libs I see no reason not to.
> 
> May be, while waiting for new features of Rev, we can get around import 
> by having a plugin which keeps a path to Rev's folder and starts using 
> selected Rev stacks. Anyone having MC license has also Rev license, so 
> this should be ok legally.

That seems quite feasible.  Mark Waddingham has been very attentive in 
working with me to help us maintain the MC IDE going forward, and the 
notion of using parts of the Rev install within MC was one he had as well.

The tricky part is making sure those Rev resources are available for 
inclusion at build time in the Standalone Builder.

I don't use the Standalone Builder much myself anymore, since long ago I 
needed my own tool that was more automatable.  It's nearly completely 
independent of MC now, and will be fully independent in the coming 
weeks.  It currently provides facilities for managing external 
libraries, and could easily be extended to handle Rev stuff as well 
(although aside from the printField routines and revGoUrl, there's 
precious little there I'd use myself; my tool will concatenate 
designated handlers into a single backscript, as opposed to RunRev's 
method which takes up as many as 8 out of the 10 available backscript 
slots).

My SA may not be to everyone's taste, but once it's done I'll release it 
as a plugin and folks can decide whether we integrate it into MC directly.

Alternatively, if someone here wants to add such support to the current 
Standalone Builder that might also be useful, but be forewarned it's a 
lot of work.

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  Richard Gaskin
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