Constellation

[Thomas McGrath III]

Ben,

I agree with what you are saying and the one nice thing about this  
list and REV compared to let's say Director is that there are so many  
people willing to help out with code snippets and ideas and stacks to  
disect etc.

Tom

On Oct 20, 2005, at 8:43 PM, Ben Fisher wrote:

> Well, I guess Constellation beat me to it... I had also been  
> working on a
> similar script editing interface. It looks pretty nice though.
>  Just a few comments...
>  It seems like a lot of the plug-ins and tools for Revolution  
> lately are
> being sold. There is nothing wrong with this, in fact most of the  
> time these
> products look nicer and are easier to use.
>  However, I am always more attracted to free open-source projects,  
> not just
> because of the price, but also because of the spirit. Developers  
> helping
> each other, one of the reasons I subscribe to this list. If I download
> open-source code, I can contribute to the project. All fellow  
> developers can
> profit from my contributions, and not just the few who can afford  
> to buy.
> Perhaps Revolution is partly at fault: that stacks (not being text  
> files)
> are not as easy to be developed by a team. Or maybe I just belong to a
> different generation of coders?
>  After thriving off of free software for so long, it felt kind of  
> awkward
> for me to spend the money to even upgrade my version of Revolution.  
> Paying
> money just to get the language? I'm sure many other potential Rev  
> developers
> are discouraged by the same type of feelings.
>  I propose that a central website be created, full of code from the  
> Rev
> universe. More structured than a wiki, files would be uploaded into
> categories and directories, but the whole database could be quickly
> searched. Most importantly, there would be a section composed of  
> tools and
> utilities all completely free and open source. I know websites like  
> this
> already exist, but it would be so much cooler if there were one
> authoritative Rev Source.
>  -Ben Fisher
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