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Re: Light Table 0.7.0

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Post by tiffanyh » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 2:25 AM UTC

So how is Chris (et al.) planning to make Light Table a sustainable business (e.g. "pay the bills").

It's great they have the kickstarter money but I haven't seen any announcements on them making this a product for sale. If anything, it appears they are doing the exact OPPOSITE and distancing themselves from the project all together.

Re: Light Table 0.7.0

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Post by coldtea » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 2:27 AM UTC

pnathan wrote: post #9

What issue could possibly exist for using a GPL editor? It's not being shipped from a company...

Companies might WANT to ship it, enhance it, sell proprietary plugins for it, etc.

Re: Light Table 0.7.0

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Post by wldcordeiro » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 2:28 AM UTC

moron4hire wrote: post #14

wldcordeiro wrote: post #7

I've considered using Light Table for a while but the fact that there isn't a simple way to install it on Linux (either via apt or another package manager or a packaged version like a deb/rpm) keeps me from bothering.

So downloading a tarball and unpacking it is not simple enough?

Apparently you need to also do the things described in this readme to get it working properly. https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable#initial-setup

Re: Light Table 0.7.0

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Post by debacle » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 2:51 AM UTC

tiffanyh wrote: post #31

So how is Chris (et al.) planning to make Light Table a sustainable business (e.g. "pay the bills"). It's great they have the kickstarter money but I haven't seen any announcements on them making this a product for sale. If anything, it appears they are doing the exact OPPOSITE and distancing themselves from the project all together.

Isn't that the norm for kickstarter funded software projects, especially of the open source flavor?

Re: Light Table 0.7.0

#35

Post by owenversteeg » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 2:52 AM UTC

pnathan wrote: post #9

What issue could possibly exist for using a GPL editor? It's not being shipped from a company...

Personally, I will not contribute to something that's GPLed unless it's really important project - the Linux kernel for example. I know a lot of other developers that think the same.

Re: Light Table 0.7.0

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Post by e12e » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 3:09 AM UTC

tiffanyh wrote: post #31

So how is Chris (et al.) planning to make Light Table a sustainable business (e.g. "pay the bills"). It's great they have the kickstarter money but I haven't seen any announcements on them making this a product for sale. If anything, it appears they are doing the exact OPPOSITE and distancing themselves from the project all together.

Before asking how, ask "are they planning to turn it into a business?". Neither Emacs, gcc or even Linux have been made into a product. They and many other such products still survive just fine.

Re: Light Table 0.7.0

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Post by moron4hire » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 3:10 AM UTC

wldcordeiro wrote: post #33

moron4hire wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So downloading a tarball and unpacking it is not simple enough?

Apparently you need to also do the things described in this readme to get it working properly. https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable#initial-setup

Either this is for building from source, or it has backslid into bullshit territory, because I've used it on both Windows and Linux without doing any of that.

Re: Light Table 0.7.0

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Post by Rapzid » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 3:39 AM UTC

wldcordeiro wrote: post #33

moron4hire wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So downloading a tarball and unpacking it is not simple enough?

Apparently you need to also do the things described in this readme to get it working properly. https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable#initial-setup

Same. Download, extract, double click on both platforms. It even downloads clojure for you...

Re: Light Table 0.7.0

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Post by voltagex_ » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 3:39 AM UTC

owenversteeg wrote: post #35

pnathan wrote: post #9

What issue could possibly exist for using a GPL editor? It's not being shipped from a company...

Personally, I will not contribute to something that's GPLed unless it's really important project - the Linux kernel for example. I know a lot of other developers that think the same.

Why?

Re: Light Table 0.7.0

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Post by johnsmith32 » Thu, Nov 20, 2014, 4:00 AM UTC

I really dislike how so many editors bind the evaluation/compile/menu key to ctrl + space or ctrl + shift. On the default multilingual key setting on windows, it is especially annoying when you want to run the code but instead your typing language changes to chinese