New MC-standalone builder

[Richard Gaskin]

On 6/16/11 1:33 AM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote:

> Richard,
>
> could you shed some light on my question below?

Thank you for your patience.  As you've seen from my posts to the 
use-livecode list, it's been a hectic period here overcoming challenges 
with CLUIs and other things, but I agree this is important so let's 
address it:

>> Hello Richard,
>>
>> Is it still too early to ask or could you tell us when the new
>> standalone builder could be released?
>>
>> We are thankful for your commitment to manage this task.

I'll try to make some time to come into the office on Saturday to wrap 
that up and post it.

It currently only handles Mac, Win, and Linux, so if you need RevWeb or 
anything else you're on your own for that (though contributions to 
enhancing the new SB are welcome- let's discuss strategies for 
implementation if you're interested).

There's an annoyance in the current design in which it requires you to 
point to a folder containing your Runtime engines; it figures out where 
to find the appropriate engine from there, but does require that you 
have such a folder.

One of the revisions I want to make Sat. is to remove the requirement to 
pull out your Runtime folder, and let you instead simply point to your 
LiveCode folder/.app.

Even better would be to find it for you, but I don't believe the MC IDE 
currently provides a preference setting to store the path to your LC 
installation.

@Ken:  Could we provide such a preference?  This could be very useful 
for all sorts of things, from managing externals to finding 
documentation elements and more, obviating the need to replicate any of 
those files.

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