There has been some grumbling on what RS has chosen to implement as features. A lot of this grumbling is not justified because it does not match the facts. In the release notes, there were approximately 167 changes in r1 and there were approximately 13 items marked as "new". That makes for about 8% of the work as new feature work and the new features for r1 could be categorized as minor. So the reality of r1 is that about 92% of the work was for bug fixes and bug fixes are what people have been clamoring for. So I think you have to give RS some credit here for doing the right thing in r1 and the quality is improving. Having said that, we need to hold their feet to the fire going forward.
People have been giving a list of the top three items they want done. I think this is the wrong way to approach this question. The better question to ask is what area of RB needs improvement. For example, the user experience with the IDE, libraries to manage code, or team development issues. These all can be categorized as a focus that the RS team can concentrate on. In that light, my number one soap box thing I complain about to RS is the lack of attention to the "nuts and bolts" features. These are the things that will give us the most bang for the buck. Instead of the nuts and bolts we get a "nice to have" features like the new XOR operator. Here is my list of nuts and bolts features... - Libraries (source code and precompiled). - Plugins per project. - Creating plugins in RB. - Folders in the IDE to help organize our methods. - Team development features (i.e., proper version control). All these features would fundamentally change how we work. Out of that list I would choose libraries as the number one feature to be implemented. Libraries will have a huge impact on how we work with RB and distribute code. If we had precompiled RB libraries a whole new market of third party development would open up in the RB community. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
