Well other companies manage to write programs that work in Windows95/98.
Are Allaire not competent enough in writing programs to do it?
Windows98 might not be as robust as WIndows2000, but its not my choice in
this case. I'm given my environment and have to live with it.
I suggest that its unrealistic to write a major part of the program, and
expect that developers have to have Win2000 to use it. Unless you state
in the system requirements of the program it only works in Win2000. Last
time I looked (which was 3 minutes ago) Allaire's web site says that
Studio requires Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.. It doesn't even mention
Windows2000
Now, I'm not a lawyer, but the Sale Of Goods Act here in Australia (and
many countries have a similar law) says that goods sold must be fit for
the purpose for which they are sold. In Australia, if an advertisement or
a salesperson says a radio will receive FM stations, then receive FM
stations it must, or the company has breached the law. If I bought this
product, and wanted to run it on Windows98 (which I do) then I would have
an action against Allaire if it doesnt. In my view, Allaire, and their
local distributors Firmware Design would be breaking the Fair Trading laws
if they sold Studio to work on Windows98 (which they do - see
http://www.firmware.com.au/html/coldfusion_studio.cfm) and then it didn't
work and they didn't make any attempt to fix the problems.
In fairness to Firmware Design, I should add that they are trying to help,
but that help consists of sending an email to Allaire, then getting an
answer the next day to a totally different question, and months after
installing Studio4.5 it is still giving me the same problems it did on the
first day.
Basically, I remain unconvinced that Allaire are fair dinkum (as we say in
Australia ) about Studio. I think in their view it's a silly little
program they wish would go away. If they were serious about it, they'd
pay attention to the large number of people who are having problems with
it.
Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development
Windsor, NSW, Australia
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Dave Watts wrote:
> > Yes, I'm using it in Windows98.
> ...
> > And my opinion of Allaire is that they don't see Studio as an
> > important part of Cold Fusion - just a necessary evil to lure
> > developers into giving CF the nod. I think they really hope
> > we'll all use something else to develop on so they dont have
> > to waste their time on it any more.
>
> I disagree; I think they'll be pushing Studio harder & harder as "the" CF
> development client - wait until it's used as a Java development environment!
> I think that they don't see Windows 98 client support as important, though.
> Considering what a vile piece of crap Windows 95/98 is, I can't really blame
> them. I wouldn't recommend that anyone use Windows 98 to do any development
> work, period.
>
> I know that you don't want to hear "use NT/2K"; changing your OS isn't a
> trivial thing, necessarily. But I do think you'll be a happier developer for
> it, and that's the best answer I can give. I've never been willing to use 98
> as a development platform, and I managed to get NT working on every laptop I
> used (which used to be an extremely painful process, like putting an
> elephant in a VW Beetle's trunk).
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> voice: (202) 797-5496
> fax: (202) 797-5444
>
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