OT: Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

[J. Landman Gay]

Jim Carwardine wrote:
> Wasn't HyperCard "semi-open-source" way back because of XCMDs and XFCN?... A
> tool like CompilIt made it easier for non-C coders to develop an extension
> for HC for their own purpose.  I don't think Rev has that facility that same
> way, but couldn't Rev become "semi-open-source" by providing a tool like
> CompilIt, fully documented and supported with an easy path designed to bring
> cool and widely used X-things into the IDE  ... Jim

HC was closed and proprietary, and Apple still guards the code even 
though they aren't using it any more. They provided info about the hooks 
required to use externals, just as Rev does, but no one outside of Apple 
knows how the engine works.

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