Re: standard library
Re: standard library
- Subject: Re: standard library
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:59:35 +0000
Stan Cleveland wrote:
You may be the orneriest cuss in all the AS community,
Yeah... best you don't let John C Welch hear you say that.
I look forward to exploring your stdlib scripts and, I would guess, adopting them as a useful part of my AS environment. Who knows, perhaps I may even be able to add something to the effort.
Don't rush - half the files are just TODOs and what is written is still
buggy as anthills. Also, any progress is contingent upon not having
better things to do (i.e. paying work) and my finite patience for
AppleScript's endless stupidities and brokenness.
But having rummaged through the third-party code Jean-Christophe's been
collating and shaking my head a lot at the quality of it (not that my
vintage AS code is something to be proud of either), and having long
since dismissed Apple's own AS scripts as not even wrong, I figured it'd
be useful to put money where my mouth is and provide a basic benchmark
as to how an AS stdlib should look and work. My AS-fu is rusty, but once
I get back into the swing of it my natural OCD and paranoia generates
*very* robust AS code, which is what users absolutely require in a stdlib.
If you want to do something useful, get everyone here to jump up and
down on Chris Page until he agrees to work *with* the AS community to
build and test a stdlib out in the open, and include it in the OS once
it's proved fit for purpose. I may well have *real* work coming up
shortly, in which case I'll probably cut and run, but folks are welcome
to clone the repo and run with it themselves. (I've not bothered putting
a copyright/public domain message on the files, cos if you can persuade
the AS team to take them I'll relinquish all rights so they can own the
lot.)
(Also, if anyone has git hook scripts for diffing .scpt/.scptd files or
otherwise making them amenable to DVCS's plaintext world, be great if
you could spread 'em around. Nothing murders distributed development and
version control worse than binary files.)
Regards,
has
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