On May 13, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Norman Palardy wrote: > On 13-May-07, at 1:21 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > >> Does that make it more clear? Is anyone else not getting my point in >> this or am I simply not typing clearly? > > And you run the same risks with Apple or even MS tools > What do you do if you were a successful VB 6 developer ? Or FoxPro ? > Or a Mac developer that relied on CodeWarrior ?
Apple (best) and MS both will always provide developers with the tools they need ahead of public release. We've been building and testing for Leopard for 8 months now. And we had our Vista tools 13 months before the public got access. To do otherwise would not only kill the ISV marketspace, but also the OSes as the apps would dry up. > There are risks with every choice and how you mitigate and deal with > those risks is what's important. That's an answer from someone who's not weighed all of the issues - your broken leg doesn't hurt me, so it can't really be hurting you. And, you keep coming up with these answers, so I'll just step away from this now. However, that - getting back to Karen's original post - is why many of us avoid 3rd party plugins. Granted, I've found MBS to be a very risk-free add-in. It's not a risk some of us are willing to take. > Third party items in RB are no different and arrangements can be made > to deal with the perceived risks How do you make arrangements with the author that no longer maintains their code nor has any interest in doing so - aka, the Doggie Spa owners n Sedona? They dropped it, they're done, your screwed. Again, getting back to Karen's original post - this is why many of us either write our own features or don't use RB for more than simple solutions - in a previous post you compared the work by XSliva and then admitted that the bulk of the UI is custom work. So, without the custom work, were do that leave RB developers? Ah well, I know my reasons and you know yours. Let's just agree that we disagree and stop trying to sell each other. Tim -- Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
