Understanding the ScriptExecution Error List

[Richard Gaskin]

J. Landman Gay wrote:

 > On 7/23/2016 3:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >> In your copious free time would you be able to update the MetaCard
 >> Setup stack as well?
 >
 > Is anyone still using that? Didn't we EOL it?

I'm not sure anyone ever declared it officially dead, but since the 
former maintainers haven't updated it in years and no one's complained 
since I suppose that tells us all we need to know about whether it's 
worth updating. :)

In my case I used it twice last year to handle migration of some very 
old data in stacks that were dependent on MC IDE stacks.

Yesterday I ran MetaCard Setup just to see if it would work in v8, and 
was surprised it didn't; seems something changed in the boot sequence 
since v6.x where I last ran it successfully.

My only current interest is as a possible foundation for folks to use to 
make other tools from. If made into a plugin it would bypass the need 
for a completely separate install, and since it's licensed under MIT 
it's compatible with both the Community and proprietary editions of LC.

But I think the licensing is about all it has going for it.  The UI is 
so spartan and lacking support for gradients, graphic effects, etc., 
that it may be simpler to build a completely new UI from scratch than to 
money with what's there.

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