[MC_IDE] Quick Poll

[Richard Gaskin]

On 3/29/11 8:40 AM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
>> 1) Do you build standalones with the MC IDE at all (either because you're
>> using an older version of MC or because you made your own standalone
>> builder)?
>>
> If the necessity arises of course I have to use an appropriate version
> of the MC IDE.
> I would very much like a new MC IDE standalone builder with the
> simplicity of the earlier MC IDE versions.
>
> There must be a way to achieve this, Klaus Major had been working on it,
> but the difficulties he encountered apparently were too great and his
> time budget he could allot to the task were insufficient.
>
> When Revolution had been launched as a separate product; Kevin Miller
> had promised that MC compatibility would be fully preserved. I see this
> new structure of the Livecode standalone builder as a definite step away
> from this promise. Kevin himself should have supplied us with the means
> to program a new MC IDE standalone builder.
>
> I hope there can be a cooperative enterprise of MC IDE users to
> eventually produce a MC standalone builder.
>
> I suppose, Richard Gaskin has found solutions to all this? Would it be
> possible that he could share his version of a standalone builder - or
> offer it as a starting point for a new MC version?

In keeping with RunRev's commitment to the MC IDE, Oliver Kenyon 
provided the necessary info to allow us to use the new engine-based 
standalone building process in v4.0 and later.

As I noted earlier, I've been using this info to make a new standalone 
builder, which I'll donate to the MC IDE project.

I should note that mine only builds desktop standalones, and does not 
support RevWeb or mobile at this time.  I'll probably get around to 
adding mobile support, but RevWeb is of no interest to me so if anyone 
wants that they'll have to add it to the donated stack once it's available.

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