Sharing Stacks

[Alex Tweedly]

On 14/07/2016 17:57, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>
> >> Why is that not used?
> >
> > It is used.
>
> But is it used frequently enough to warrant the expense of maintenance 
> by the core team?

I think it's not used because it's not reliable.

I was an early, and enthusiastic, user of revOnline when it first 
appeared.  I got some really useful stacks from it, and posted a few of 
mine.
Then it broke, and stayed broken for a long time, and I got out of the 
habit.

Then it started working again - but I had just got out of the habit of 
even looking there :-)

Prompted by this thread, I tried it again (with 8.0.1 rc1 which is what 
I happened to be using).
  - some UI glitches
  - search was totally unreliable
  - either sorting was broken, or the available stacks were incomplete
  - ....

So I decided I'd better get up to date before complaining :-) Downloaded 
8.1.0 dp2, and tried again:
  much better - the UI glitches are still there, but other things seem 
much better.

Then I closed the IDE down - and then went back to check on something - 
and now I can't get revOnline to open at all.
Clicking on "Sample stacks" does nothing (except a quick flash of the 
button itself).

I've checked the loc of stack "revonline" (in the middle of the screen, 
roughly), and the vis of it (true), and I'm struggling to think of 
anything else to check.
If I had any more of a clue, I'd submit a bug :-)

But about all I can say is "it doesn't work", and I know it did work, 
and I can't think of anything useful to say about what's different now 
from an hour ago.

-- Alex.