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Revolution Interoperability Project

The Revolution Interoperability Project (RIP) is an open working group for defining recommendations for handling component metadata in software developed with Runtime Revolution, as well as standards for interoperability of libraries, components, and other resources.

The Edinbugh Core Metadata Initiative (ECMI) is underway to provide guidelines to use of metadata and interoperability of resources in Revolution.

This mirror site provides convenient access to the files published by the working group. Some of the tools and other files are still being updated, but to get this archive started we have the central document that describes the metadata that drives them, and a basic property editor to make adding and updating RIP properties simple:

Description File Size Contributor
ECMI draft 006 (revised 7/15) ECMI_10.rtf.zip 52k Ken Ray etl al.
Simple RIP property editor using the latest ECMI spec RIPedit.rev.zip 24k Richard Gaskin
RIP Editor Draft 002.rev.zip RIP_Editor_Draft_002.rev.zip 64k Eric Chatonet
uRIPides.rev - RIP property editor uRIPides.rev 212k Mark Wieder

Participation in this working group is open to all interested parties. The main discussion board for the project is at:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/revInterop

Next Steps for RIP

Clearly the project has plenty of property editors, but what we don't yet have is a library that uses the RIP properties to handle things like automatic updating.

If you're interested in contributing to such a librariy, please joing the RIP Yahoo Group and let us know what you want to work on. As an open source initiative, all contributions are appreciated.
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