[ANN] automatic metacard IDE creation tool

[Brian Yennie]

There is one slightly unconventional option for hosting which we  
could consider for things Rev-related: Amazon's S3 service. There is  
no contract, and the cost is $0.15/month per GB storage and $0.18/GB  
download. I believe upload is $0.10 / GB.

You can add a CNAME DNS record to any existing domain name to point  
to the Amazon service space, so we could ask RunRev to redirect a  
subdomain, for example:  http://metacard.runrev.com

Obviously we would have to foot the bill somehow, but it wouldn't  
take much and there's no contract nor piggy backing on someone else's  
server space. I can't imagine we would have a GB of files too soon  
nor more than a few GB of transfer...

Incidentally, I've been contemplating writing an S3 library for Rev -  
but haven't gotten around to it. There are some passable desktop  
tools already out for managing files on the service.

> Related to that: Would it be possible to mirror the IDE stack files  
> somewhere, where a program can download them (maybe ask runrev for  
> a bit of space on their server?)? Additionally, is it possible not  
> to use zip files (because that needs the zip.dll)? I recommend  
> plain stack files, maybe gz, because these can be used within rev/mc.