and now that there is no open source version of LiveCode the plan is irrelevant.
If the protagonists over here:
https://openxtalk.org/forum/index.php
stop burbling about "I had a great idea about", "let's recreate HyperCard exactly" and other distractions
and get down to their stated aim . . . to provide an ongoing open source version of LiveCode, but relabelled
and so forth, this should be possible.
I, however, have begun to lose my @#$%^& with that lot as they seem to be going off on an awful lot
of self-indulgent tangentialisms which don't really serve any purpose except putting off the work required.
I have, on a computer of mine, a "sanitised" version of LiveCode Community 9.6.3, insofar as it has
NO "tarty extra features" that the folk on the openxtalk forums go on about, but is stripped of what
I believe are the references and features connected to LiveCode that have to be stripped out . . .
BUT, in the great scheme of things that is of little or no value if folk cannot put together cross-platform
installers and have a code base that is capable of being upgraded at a later date.
However, I would like to point out that LiveCode have gifted me 20 FREE educational licences,
and are obviously prepared to be extremely generous if they perceive some
non-financial benefit accruing,
SO the fact that LiveCode Open Source, as such, has vanished, should NOT be enough to stop this
sort of initiative going forth.
A few weeks ago I posted something titled "RevMedia 4.0 was so right", and, in due course LiveCode
might like to consider releasing something like that where coding can be performed but standalones
cannot be generated . . . and, if you really want my "Full On" educational opinion, Widgets do NOT
feature as do not Data Grids.