The point is that I expect things to continue moving forward. If it worked in 5.4, it should work in 2007r2, or there should be an acceptable replacement.
Let's say that I've built a wonderful app that uses two very important 3rd party plugins. The result app works beyond expectation. Let's say I build my user base to 250K Mac users Let's say that REAL releases 5.0 and my app continues to compile and now properly supports Windows as well as Mac and my user base grows to 400K Let's say that REAL release 5.1 and changes the plugins API and my two very important plugins no longer work and the authors of the plugins have moved on and now run Day Spa's for dogs in Sedona, AZ. Okay, I keep using 5.0. Let's say that both MS and Apple change the Operating systems and apps built on 5.0 no longer run properly, so REAL releases 5.2 to fix the issue and in order to have my tool work on the new versions of Windows and OS X, I MUST move forward to 5.2. My plugins no longer work, and even though I still have my 5.0 license, I can't go back to 5.0 to get them to work since that version won't run on the new OSes. So, I give up 3rd party plugnis, write the necessary functions in-house, and move to 5.2. And so on, duplicating ALL of those items through the release of 2007r2. Does that make it more clear? Is anyone else not getting my point in this or am I simply not typing clearly? Tim -- Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 13, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Norman Palardy wrote: > On 13-May-07, at 12:32 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > >> I am fully aware of the fantastic service provided by REAL's customer >> service team. But, that's not the point - I still have all of my >> copies back to 4.5. The point was that I can't build a Linux version >> with 4.5 if there was a 4.5-only plugin that I was dependent on for >> my project to run. And 4.5 can't build Windows and 4.5 can't build >> UB. I was not questioning whether we could "get" the older version, >> but that it wouldn't give us what we needed based on the latest >> requirements. > > I'm quite confused as to what you're expecting > 4.5 was written with knowledge of what existed as was the plugin > Both the OS and the plugin SDK have changed since then so 4.5 may not > create applications that behave properly, and the plugin may not work > in the current IDe because the plugin SDK has changed. > > Not sure how you overcome the shortage of prescience in the plugin > developer or at REAL software > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
