--- Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 5:13 PM -0800 1/7/02, erik hansen wrote: > >one of the key questions for me was the > >restrictions RunRev puts on Rapid Application > >Development (whatever that is (and as i hear > 2nd > >hand)). this issue does NOT seem to have > struck a > >nerve . > > The restrictions are much the same, but not > quite. Rapid Application Development is what > MetaCard and Revolution are. What Revolution is > saying, basically, is "don't compete with us." > > There was a(n) (in)famous case in the SuperCard > world where someone used SuperCard to produce a > SuperCard-alike. This is possible because the > SuperCard development environment is built in > SuperCard. The same is true of MetaCard -- > that's why Revolution is possible. The Rev crew > licensed the engine from the MetaCard crew. The > license simply means that you won't do the same > thing the Revolution crew did _without_ > bothering to get a license. > > The end result is very similar between the two > environments, although I once called Scott to > ask about an idea I had for a tool that I > thought pushed the limits of this, and he > simply told me that if it didn't violate the > script limits (allowing the end user to write a > script more than 10 lines long) then it was > fine. I think the answer from the Rev crew > would be about the same.
this finally explains it. i bought MetaCard without even trying RunRev for a pretty specious reason! no regrets, though. the bugs will get sorted out in RR eventually, but i can't afford to wait. the cool RR widgets, i will just have to learn to build or borrow. the consensus seems to be that both are excellent products with a few trade-offs but basically the same capabilities. anyway, what is offered here is so overwhelming that i feel like a 10 year old i a theme park. ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikhansen.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard