[CREATE] Open Colour Systems Collection 2.0 released (Re: CREATE Digest, Vol 134, Issue 1)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Are you aware that Xamarin Mono, besides having a open-source (MIT-licensed) C# compiler mcs, also have a visual-basic compiler, vbnc, which should be already available on most libre os'es? I see RealBasic's compiler is non-free, but they do/did provide a visual basic convertor so presumably the two *basic'es are close enough.

I would also suggest that you simply post a binary (for windows? or RealBasic seems to support linux also...) just to see if the software is worth porting.

Whether you are in LG 2016 London,  or following this list, you might be aware that I ported one of Microsoft's recently opened C#-based project to build with mono, and run on Linux/Mac also - I am quite familiar with mono, but haven't touched any *Basic code for about two decades :-) ... I am not looking for repeating the Microsoft experience any time too soon though, given how it turned out - the mojority of users are trollish(?) non-libre users, which sort of defeat the purpose - that may happen to you too: you may not attract the users you want, and the past/existing users of the said software aren't the types you enjoy donating your time to... but those are my suggestions: post some current binary/binaries first, and look at mono vbnc.


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 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 08:01:35 +0100
 From: "Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>
 Subject: [CREATE] Open Colour Systems Collection 2.0
 released
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 Colour Software Release Planned
 ===============================
 
 freieFarbe e.V. / freeColour also intends to release a
 previously closed-source colour software product written in
 RealBasic as Open Source under a GPL 2+ licence. fF / fC
 hopes to find contributors who are interested in porting the
 code from RealBasic to C++ and Qt, as well as merging the
 features of Swatchbooker and the original product. The
 majority of the code is UI-related, but the essential
 algorithms (the core of the product) are well-commented. Any
 assistance with respect to the organisation of the release
 of the source code would be welcome.