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[Richard Gaskin]

On 9/20/12 1:25 PM, Alain Farmer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It's Alain, the HyperCard Pantechnicon host.. I have been using
> HyperCard since 1986, MetaCard 2.5 since 1996, but I never made the leap
> to RunRev, specifically LiveCode these days. Now I am seriously
> considering it, so I have some questions for y'all:
>
> * With MetaCard 2.5, above a [few] thousand cards, performance slowed
> down dramatically.
> Is Rev faster than this? Can Rev handle tens-of-thousands of cards?

MC is just a collection of stacks; the engine is the same regardless 
which stacks one uses for the IDE.

> Would it require Valentina?

Valentina is supported, but not required.

> Does Rev support mySQL databases ?

MySQL, SQLite, and ODBC are supported.  If relationality isn't a key 
feature of your data you may also store data in custom properties, or in 
arrays run through arrayEncode for saving.


> * MetaCard started in the UNIX world, was then ported to windows, then
> ported to Mac.
> Does Rev run on Linux? Does Rev run on Debian ?

LiveCode runs well on Debian, and Debian-based distros like Ubuntu, 
Mind, and others.  It also runs well on Red Hat, and most other distros 
that meet the requirements list here under the Linux section:
<http://www.runrev.com/products/desktop-deployment/linux-desktops/>

FWIW, I know split most of my development time between OS X and Ubuntu 
these days, and find recent versions of LiveCode very productive on 
Linux.  Still not quite at feature parity with other platforms for a few 
things like video playback (QT dependency; also FUBAR on Windows without 
QT), but most core features run well.


> * Rev's web plugin is available for which browsers ?
> FireFox ?IceWeasel? Chrome ?

RevWeb has been discontinued, primarily because of significant 
differences among browsers with regard to 32-bit plugins.


> * Is there a Rev licence that allows standalones ? If so, how much does
> it cost ?

I believe all licenses allow standalones.


> * Best way(s) to learn LiveCode ?

Start coding. :)

You may also want to join the forums:
<http://forums.runrev.com/>

> Thanks y'all, and I hope that I will be joining you soon,  :)
>
> Alain



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