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Developer license ETA?

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Peter Powers
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#21 - 2014-03-31 10:40:12 UTC
Karbowiak wrote:

Actually, CREST is documented all the way through. And it's also highly easy to understand, once you come to grips with how it presents the data.

Sadly, not all of that documentation is publicly available, for example: no docs on how it reports errors.

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Zifrian
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#22 - 2014-03-31 11:16:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Zifrian
Karbowiak wrote:
Rob Crowley wrote:
Karbowiak wrote:
However much i hate myself for saying it, the smaller sites aren't actually that super important in this discussion. They see very little of the total pool of EVE fansite users.

That's exactly why I posted before, because this discussion could use a bit of a broader horizon. There are other things than fansites coming from the 3rd party community. Our userbase (EveHQ) is not that small, and neither are the ones of EveMon, EFT or pyfa. Yet I'm sure we all don't have large hosting costs simply because we're not web services. So naturally, our priorities regarding the dev license will differ from yours.


That part is true, applications which aren't webapps are inherently less hosting cost demanding. But some things just can't be native applications P

As for EFT / PYFA, there is a web app for that. O.smium.org

Aineko Macx wrote:
SghnDubh wrote:
... appropriate guaranteed CCP service levels ... API changes would be pre-announced and pre-delivered so that fansites wouldn't have to test updates on live environments and live customers.

That is mightily optimistic. CCP isn't professional enough to believe in documentation or responsible API changes. I don't think we'll ever see meaningful SLAs on EvEs service or API.


Actually, CREST is documented all the way through. And it's also highly easy to understand, once you come to grips with how it presents the data.

As for an SLA on CREST, you might be supriced, that we might actually see something like that. Since they use CREST internally for DUST<>EVE communication.

Pretty sure CCP fox four said API changes are a collateral project. Given the issues we've had over the years on the data export, which seem to get fixed by someone who seems to care more than an official team member, I think Aineko is pretty spot on. As far as Crest, it's about what I expected in terms of documentation.

Honestly, I thought this whole license thing was dropped because it was too difficult to implement. For me, that's perfectly acceptable. If I had to pay for a license, I would stop my little hobby project. I'm not sure how many users I really have (when I break something they seem to let me know though!) but for the EveMon and battle clinic level stuff I can see a need for this. Although, I wonder if they just can't figure out how to find a middle ground solution that will maintain the status quo for people like me and improve the situation for those with larger traffic. Or maybe they are just pushing the decision because they don't want to make one on something (3rd party development) that isn't getting priority support.

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