There's no place like Home

[Richard Gaskin]

David Bovill wrote:
> Hmmm... still failing on OSX - I've tried changing the pList in copied Rev
> bundle - renamed things as stated. Put the Home and help and tools stack at
> the same level for 2.9....

One nice thing about using Jacque's automated setup tool for MC is that 
it avoids the one mistake that can easily hose an MC Home stack:  before 
attempting to run any MC installation, you must first run and register 
your Rev installation.  Without that, any Home stack will be altered in 
ways I don't understand but which have made it unusable afterward.

But if you first register Rev before attempting to run MC, you can make 
an Home stack you like:  Just name a stack file "mchome.mc", put in 
anything you want to have it be your IDE (MC's just launches 
"mctools.mc"), and once the engine verifies that it's been successfully 
registered it merely looks for "mchome.mc" and opens it, leaving the 
details of what happens next entirely up to you.

I think it's worth taking a moment to express kudos for Kevin and the 
team for simplifying the creation of other IDEs this way.  The current 
method better enforces their own license, while leaving complete freedom 
for developers to craft their own environments.  Win-win for all.

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  Richard Gaskin
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