RunRev Script Editor and Linux

[Pierre Sahores]

Dear Friends,

Alike some others list fellows, i spended hundreds of hours to develop for and thousands of hours to run mc and rev apps under the Linux platform and here are my two cents about this :

- Linux is suited to be one of the best server's platform (alike xBSD and Solaris, ...)
- Linux is not well suited to be a real desktop platform (alike, OSX or Windows, ...)

All the Rev stuff i target to the linux platform are only related to server's solutions : Rich Internet Application's Servers or Web Application's Servers. In beetwin 1997 and 2003, all my xTalks based servers apps went build and running as xinetd services on top ofApache + PHP + MC. In beetwin 2004 and 2009, i just changed this in replacing MC by Rev. From may 2009 to yet, all my new xtalk's based server's apps have been build on top of the on-rev platform.

Conclusion 1 : All those apps went always 100% rock-solid and suiting all my clients and end-users needs. Soo, the Rev engine is 100% suited to run as expected on the Linux platform.

All the solutions i ever developped for the Linux platform went coded under the MacOSX platform because the Rev IDE for Linux is always less polished than the OSX or Windows are.

If i had to devlop a Rev desktop app to target the Linux platform (it's realy not the case...), i'm not sure that i would not have to spend 4/5 of my dev time in tunning my standalones to feet each main linux distro + KDE / each main linux distro + Gnome, etc... to get the expected results for each linux targeted platform.

Conclusion 2 : Rev is probably not, at least for yet, the best dev platform to target the Linux Desktop's apps market....

If i had to do such work indeed, i would choose to combine an HTML5/CSS framework (alike fluid 960 grid system) for the GUI part of the app and Rev to handle all the app logic running behind the scene.

Best Regards,

Pierre


Le 14 juil. 2010 à 18:35, J. Landman Gay a écrit :

> Peter Alcibiades wrote:
>> "The choice of software components that makes Linux so appealing to its users
>> is also the reason that Rev doesn't work with everything."
>> Jacque, I'm afraid this is really not what is going on. 
> 
> Well, there are certain requirements for certain managers under which Rev says it will work. Of course I know far less about this than you or the other Linux users, but this implies to me that there really is a difference.
> 
> Many of us have now tested copy/paste in the script editor and no one else is crashing. That would also imply that it has something to do with your particular setup. If you can pin down what the conflict is, it can be addressed.
> 
> Pierre offered a possible workaround; did you try it? If it works, then it might give RR a lead on where to look for the problem.
> 
> BTW, I put Rev into a different desktop the other day and it worked okay. I'm not sure what you're attempting. I didn't try separating out various windows, I left the entire app running in desk 2. It worked fine, so I'm not sure what you're seeing here. But if there's an issue you should write up a report. The team won't know unless you do that. You'll need a repeatable recipe.
> 
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