gee what a horrible thread....
On Nov 17, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Dave wrote:
On 17 Nov 2006, at 08:35, Bernard Devlin wrote:
Dave said
> I think that there is a lot of silly, sometimes personal crap on
> this list on the odd occasion and I reckon it boils down to this:
>
> Someone relates some (usually fairly truthful) bad news about
> RunRev and then someone else tries to make it "all right" by
> relating all the good things about RunRev (that you invariably
> already know) or berates your apparent apathy in investigating
> problems
> [....]
> Well lets all just make a deal?????
>
> No one rain on the parade and no one stop the rain from
> falling!!!!!!!!
Obviously this in the context of the running dispute between you
and me.
Slightly, it was mostly based an earlier flame-fest which was
started in the "Quality #1 issue" thread I think.
I have followed this list almost every day for the past 4 years.
Because I was not working with Rev every day, if people put up
claims in the past (positive or negative), I would not challenge
them. As I am working with Rev every day now, if someone is going
to make claims that it Rev is fundamentally buggy and that the
company is in danger of going out of business because of this,
There are a lot of bugs in the RunRev Engine, the IDE and the
documentation that have not been fixed in over three years and some
of them are very low level and therefore fundamental to the system.
I'm not going to let it go unchallenged.
Does it make you feel better?
What you're asking for is an end to discussion.
I don't mind a discussion but lets keep it to the subject at hand
and not resort to mud-slinging and low beahaviour.
You are asking to be able to make exagerrated claims (positive or
negative), and for these claims to go unchallenged.
I don't make exagerrated claims. I don't care if they are
challenged or not.
I got involved in a debate with you precisely because you seem to
have little hesitancy in making sweeping or false allegations
(these are all from 10th Nov):
"There is definitely a problem with "silly" bugs and lack of a
clear way of finding answers to problems"
"it takes a long time (more than necessary) to become a RunRev
'expert'."
"more support effort is put into developing/fixing the Engine than
the IDE."
"something needs to be done to address the backlog of bugs and
make the IDE much more stable"
"I really hope that some bugs get fixed soon and the IDE is over
hauled."
All the above is true, and, it seems that RunRev think that way too
since they are now making a bug-fix release. Hooray!
"RunRev will stop growing and eventually die."
This is out of context, I think what I said was that if they didn't
fix some of the old bugs and address the support pricing issue it
would stop growing and eventually die, and I believe this to be
true. However, no one can say 100% what will happen, so it's really
not worth arguing about/discussing it.
I didn't berate you for your apathy nor indulge in "personal crap".
If you say so.
I challenged your claims, because they seem to be exaggerated
and/or false. When you actually listed one of the bugs that is a
fundamental problem for you I tried to help you find out more
about what is going on in that situation so that we could work
together as a group to try to get that bug fixed.
Everything that can be done as a 3rd party developer has been done
on this bug, unless you can think of something else, but from your
posts it doesn't seem like you can think of anything either. Apart
from the reasons I mentioned in another post, I also wanted to see
if it had been addressed in 2.7.x, it seems it hasn't. Given that
this problem is fundamental to the whole system and given that it
can take a very long time to track down and isolate, it would seem
reasonable that at the very least the documentation be changed to
include some kind of warning about the use of "me" and the
sharedText property in fields. This could easily have been done in
any of the releases since March,
But it seems that you are more interested in complaining about
bugs and running down Runrev than you are in solving them and
promoting Rev.
The point is that there are LOADS of bugs that have been logged for
a LONG TIME without being fixed. Over and over we get a new release
with all the same bugs present plus a lot of new problems. I just
feel that there should be a bug-fix release, which is now going to
happen. I could either do nothing or voice an opinion here.
I've sold 4 (I think) RunRev Licenses in the past three years, If
that's not "promoting Rev" then I don't know what is! I've come
close to selling 4 or 5 more, but unfortunately the bugs I
mentioned above (along with other factors I have already mentioned)
prevented these sales.
Having been challenged,
Sorry I didn't realize I'd been challenged! Must have missed that bit!
you're now asking that no-one rain on your your parade. That's
not a reasonable thing to ask for.
I really don't give a flying hoot! It's your parade that is getting
rained on, in my parade it's already pouring but you seem insistent
that I get an umbrella in order that I don't get any more wet,
however, I'd rather stay wet for now and try to get something done
so the roof is not so leaky and therefore stay dry and cosy!
All the Best
Dave
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