I wasn't ever so sceptical about the idea of offering the framework source as I was the on the idea of also releasing the IDE code - which was not your suggestion I know. I think you inferred too much from the original post I made on this issue.
I can see the case for limited access to the framework, even if not fully convinced yet. Maybe if RS were to hold back the top levels of the framework ( such as object, control, rectcontrol etc ) for example such as only offering them as static libraries with headers, then maybe RS might be more amenable to the idea. Just a thought. Not only myself but many others have suggested that giving us the ability to add our own enhancements to the IDE could give us more functionality ( maybe even generate some 3rd small pty market ) while letting RS work on other more important aspects. Undeniably this would be mean RS having to spend some time on it, exposing the internal syntax tree etc.. But once done, would result in an IDE that would be much richer in power at little cost to RS. Your idea on eclipse is interesting but as I have only read about but never seen or used eclipse I don't know how much work this would involve for RS. How does the graphical GUI building side of eclipse work ? How much of a rewrite would be required to allow RB widgets to be dragged and dropped on to eclipse window form editors ? Regardless of outstanding bugs and limited resources at RS I choose to be optimistic about RB and their future. IMO all it would take would be for RS to add a couple of more platforms to their list - Windows Mobile and/or Symbian series 60 and then RS might really take off. On 6/1/07 15:56, "Andy Dent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't actually follow your argument here, you seem to have switched > to arguing FOR framework source access. > > Making the IDE customisable via an API would be a HUGE amount of work > for arguably little benefit. > > Inverting that proposition makes a lot more sense - package RB as an > Eclipse plugin, which would yield a lot of enterprise appeal. > > I think that either is far more work than RS want to consider (or > should be distracted by) right now. _______________________________________________ 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>
