...and Livecode... where are we now?

[Lagi Pittas]

Hi Tom,

It doesn't take a Sherlock home to work out that if (I hope when!)  LCFM
works out that the company will have
an influx of "new blood" with the attendant large increase in yearly
subscriptions.

My very short post (cut down from my usual rants) was lobbing a tiny hand
grenade in to arena, and see if someone at LCHQ
bites and tells us something of consequence rather than "it's going well"
or LC will be the better for all the new stuff they are working on.

Surely if they have some extra money coming in they can have someone
working on finishing all the (paid for) promises and milestones.
(HH and Sean  I feel your pain - HTML5 anyone?). I'm reading between the
lines but Trevor probably knows how well it's doing - but the rest of use
are being treated like mushrooms.

"Soon" can be years rather than months and weeks - and typically is years.
For example Filemaker has a precision of 16 to 400 digits. So that MUST
have been coded for, will we get that retrofitted in the future .
I'm not asking because I need 400 digits but you never know.

Filemaker has data binding and field Validation.
https://fmhelp.filemaker.com/help/16/fmp/en/#page/FMP_Help%2Ffield-validation.html%23

(I could do that in Clipper in 1985 with field masks). Yes I've rolled my
own but their are things  better done as a standard in an LC library.

When is the IDE that still crashes at least 4 times a day whenever I  run
through more than 5 breakpoints in succession,going to get some love.
What about the Script Editor being SLOWER than molasses - 4 seconds between
key presses.
What about Sqlite engine/library, the 2D physics where we were told there
was a working version over a year ago. The Sound on Linux. What about the
raspberry PI version. I shouldn't need to go on.

I want LCFM  to work like the next guy but please tell us what is going on
and  when.

I'd rather base my decisions on facts rather than airy fairy words.

Are more programmers coming on board or is LCFM the new shiny object?


<RANT ON>
Sorry for the Mr Angry tone , but I'm a little (make that very irritated)
at the moment, as I  just got off the phone to the Bank where the Zombie
script reader who asked me 8 (countem EIGHT questions) to get me past
security
and I was only phoning up to ask why my Card Readers hadn't arrived.
People can have £70,000 taken out of their accounts with just a sortcode,
name and account number and I am asked for 8 pieces of information to ask
where the card readers  that were ordered nearly 3 weeks ago were!!!
</RANT OFF>

Regards Lagi

p.s.

Two Card readers turned up after my call. - Two more are on their way.
Maybe if i look at downloads ther might be a version 10 Stable of Livecode
;-)



On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 23:25, Tom Glod via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> We all need livecode the company to be stable and profitable, so if they
> have to temporarily focus on x to create long term viability, then they
> should do it. Maybe just let everyone know what the plan is....and maybe on
> a release with multiple bug fixes such as 9.05 is important to prioritize
> it a little bit.
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 3:17 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > On 10/2/19 11:24 AM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote:
> >
> > > I suspect that the quick updates to LiveCode FM are a sign that the
> > launch
> > > at the FileMaker conference generated a lot of interest and there is
> some
> > > momentum building there. Perhaps they are trying to quickly fill in the
> > > gaps based on that interest so that they can close more licensing
> deals?
> > If
> > > that is the case and they can build that revenue source then it should
> > > ultimately be a good thing for those of us who don't use LiveCode FM.
> It
> > is
> > > unfortunate that LC has to sit mostly idle for so long though.
> > >
> >
> > Indeed. There are currently some 200 or so pull requests waiting in the
> > queue for action.
> >
> > I'm encouraged by this: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/7185
> >
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