near feature parity

Warren Samples warren at warrensweb.us
Tue Apr 3 10:58:54 EDT 2012


On 04/02/2012 06:15 AM, Bernard Devlin wrote:
> I gave up on LiveCode on Linux some years ago.
>
> Last week I downloaded and installed one of the v5.x installers from
> my LiveCode account, and installed it on Mint Linux.  As soon as I
> started LiveCode, it hung.  Luckily, as it started, the LiveCode
> window was smaller than the monitor - as even when I started the task
> killer to kill it, the task killer could not get access to any portion
> of the screen in which the LiveCode window was located.
>
> If I'd been able to get LiveCode to work, I was prepared to pay for
> Linux deployment.  As I couldn't, I saved myself some money (for about
> the 3rd or 4th year running).
>
> To my recollection, I've had trouble with LiveCode on Mint, OpenSuse
> and CentOS - 3 of the top 7 distros on distrowatch.org.  I can't even
> recollect if I ever got it to work satisfactorily on Debian or Ubuntu
> - I'm sure I tried.  I think I might have it installed on an Ubuntu
> laptop, so when I get back, I'll have a look (just to satisfy my own
> belief that it was a cause worth giving up on).
>
> The money I saved on paying for only the minimum that I need from
> Runrev bought me a new Macbook Air (a device I love, so I'm not
> complaining -- even though I hate the direction in which Apple is
> going).
>
> Bernard


FWIW, I never had any trouble running Livecode under Mint 9 and 10, both 
64 bit with compatibility libs installed, and 32 bit native, and have 
run it without any problems under openSUSE 11.4 and, currently, 12.1, 64 
bit with 32 bit libs installed.

Warren




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