LiveCode Community - anyone up for maintaining the community edition?

[Richmond Mathewson]

Just as a way of showing off my goofiness: how do I compile LiveCode
from your github downloadables?

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 12:55 AM Paul McClernan via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Well I've wanted to contribute more, and have as time allowed. I first had
> to learn how to use GitHub before I could even start to contribute, and did
> appreciate the hand holding I got from the team along the way. But
> understand that LC needs to be very careful and methodical about what they
> merged into their main repo, this made even contributing simple spelling
> fixes to the docs (which also requires some understanding of .markdown used
> in .lcdoc) a tedious task. Additionally,in don't think it was clear to a
> some users a lot of the IDE/libs are bootstrapped and so one only needs an
> understanding of LCScript to contribute changes.
>
> Contributing to the engine code, however, is not the only way Community
> could contribute. I jumped on the chance to extend the possibilities by
> learning LCBuilder once that became available, made all of my LCB work open
> source in Hope's of encouraging and helping others to get over the learning
> curve inherent in that. Community freely supporting other members of the
> community should also be valued.
>
> I will likely get on board LC10 train at some point, when I know more about
> the improvements being made to it, beyond syntax changea and a faster HTML5
> engine. But I also plan to try to improve and maintain my own fork of LCC,
> and I hope others will explore the many possibilities with that as well.
>
> I've already fixed a bug that I reported back in April in my fork(s) and
> added a link to my fix to that bugzilla report.
>
> https://github.com/PaulMcClernan/LiveCodeCommunity-IDE-DontPanicEdition
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 7:56 AM David Bovill via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > Here are my thoughts on this - and a request.
> >
> > Yes - it’s not a surprising move by Livecode Ltd - they were clearly
> > struggling supporting the community aspect and taking the language to the
> > next level and they need more revenue to do that.
> >
> > The question is (for my part at least) - what to do about this.
> Personally
> > I have never seen a future for a closed source language, and the
> projects I
> > work on will not fund. Projects developed in closed source - especially
> by
> > a small company. So I have a choice, switch language, or look to continue
> > with developing with the community edition and help build an open source
> > community around that. The former (switching languages) is relatively
> easy,
> > the latter a lot of work.
> >
> > I’m happy to have a company like Livecode Ltd create closed source
> > products  that I can use, so how to have both an open source language,
> and
> > the ability to work with closed source products developed by Livecode
> Ltd?
> > As I see it the only option is for those interested in the community to
> > take control and responsibility for the core language.
> >
> > There are a number of options with regard to future language development,
> > that would put the language on an even par with other open source
> > languages, and there are also new ways to finance such initiatives. It
> > would be valuable to get together as a community and discuss those.
> >
> > How about having a community conference to look at what is possible? We
> > can do this online and showcase new and existing open source projects and
> > discuss the opportunities this new environment presents?
> >
> >
> > 📆    Schedule a call with me
> > On 1 Sep 2021, 12:18 +0100, David V Glasgow via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > On 1 Sep 2021, at 11:26 am, Bernard Devlin via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > There you had a group of programmers who supposedly loved what
> > > > HyperCard could do, but they only loved that concept as a historical
> > > > artefact, not as a tool available to people now.
> > >
> > > Abso-frogging-lutely.
> > >
> > > The really interesting questions are “why?" and “Is there anything we
> > could do about it?”
> > >
> > >
> > > Best Wishes,
> > >
> > > David Glasgow
> > > Consultant Forensic & Clinical Psychologist
> > > Carlton Glasgow Partnership
> > > Director, Child & Family Training, York
> > > Honorary Professor
> > > Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit
> > > Nottingham Trent University
> > >
> > >
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