I do agree with you Charlie but I think the development community is so tired of "adopting" new Microsoft technologies that are dropped with the next release (or the one after that), its no wonder that some wait to see if Microsoft decides to stay with their own decisions.
Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.dxbase.com www.abrohamnealsoftware.com www.sdrsystems.com (540) 242 0911 Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ DX Cluster: dxc.k3nc.com port 23 On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Charlie Gallo <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 11/22/2009 Jim WA9YSD wrote: > > ...snip... > > Planning and building programs must be frustrating as well when the > > environment around the program keeps changing. It must be extra > > hard to keep some standards constant in an after market program with > these changes. > > ...snip... > > OK, I've said this before, and I'll say it again - almost all the issues > that are in dxBase RE running in Vista were documented by Microsoft as early > as 1995 (the case of the .hlp file) and no later than about 2001 ("writing > secure code V2.0") > > When the platform developer tells you to stop installing data files in the > program's directory, and to install them in the location returned by one > simple API call, and has been providing that call for almost a decade, you > can't really call it a platform change - they said "Change to the API call, > because in the future, the way you do it now will work" - and then they wait > 8 years for you to fix it, there is little blame there > > BTW I'm a software developer, and you should see how many times I've had to > beat other developers around the head for this, and how many times I've > heard from infrastructure guys "we want the data files in the application > directory, because it makes for an easy install" - all because they don't > want to use installers and other tools out there "they are too complex", and > the whole time, the Microsoft infrastructure consultants they pay BIG bucks > for are saying "Don't do that - we've said not to do that for 5 years" and > they get told "But it works" to which they reply "But it won't, soon" to > which the usual reply is "We'll fix it when it breaks" (and then of course, > they whine and say It's broken, so we won't upgrade for at least 1-2 years > while we fix things") > > > > -- > 73 de KG2V > > For the Children - RKBA! > > My Website: http://www.thegallos.com > My Blog: http://kg2v.blogspot.com > > The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects > is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely > require scholarship. > --Lazarus Long > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
