The Road Map as it now is . . . . .

[Richmond]

On 18/08/14 21:18, Charles E Buchwald wrote:
> I was under the impression that the Open Language initiative is to follow the usual open source model, and have some kind of gatekeeper who includes new, useful, user-contributed additions to the latest release. I could be wrong about that, though.
> - Charles

Um; Juvenal asked the inevitable question at least 2000 years ago: 
"/*Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

*/
>
> On 18 Aug 2014, at 12:58 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 16/08/14 22:13, Richmond wrote:
>>> AND . . .
>>>
>>> Open Language.
>>>
>>> This seems very awkward.
>>>
>>> Let us just suppose Fred Flintstone writes an extension to the Livecode language (what is it called again?)
>>> that is very clever . . .
>>>
>>> 1. Does he, somehow, infect all subsequent versions of Livecode with his extension?
>>>
>>> 2. Does he make his extension extension available as a sort of patch that other Livecode users can
>>> choose to apply or not?
>>>
>>> 3. How does this get into the Dictionary?
>>>
>>> 4. Does it remain a sort of "in" secret between Fred and his chosen sub-cult?
>>>
>>> Barney Rubble.
>> What chance an answer to this?
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
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