I sympathize with some of your thoughts here, but I think you are missing some of the appeal. As someone who has moved from Hypercard to Supercard to Metacard (and then to Rev) as each has come out, I have always taken the leap to the next tool at whatever point it proved to be worth it.
I've been using the Rev IDE for months and am quite comfortable with it; however, for about 40% of my work I would still prefer to work in the MetaCard IDE. I can't quite quantify a rule for when I use each one, but I can tell you that there's no doubt in my mind that when I do use the MetaCard IDE, it's because for that particular project it's faster, easier and bottom line more efficient.
Maybe some day the Rev IDE will reach a point where it's utterly pointless to use the MetaCard IDE, but I kind of doubt it.
If I had to pick one, it would probably be the Rev version. But that certainly does not make maintaining the MetaCard IDE worthless!
Please don't insinuate that this has anything to do with Hypercard lingerers- I haven't used Hypercard since about 1996 (and by then I had a copy of Supercard and was soon to buy Metacard). I've got all sorts of IDEs here, and they are most certainly not stuck back in time- don't throw out my emacs just because SimpleText looks nicer!
Brian
I still haven't thought of a reason to maintain the MetaCard IDE let alone
the documentation. Just because you're comforatable using the MC IDE it's no
reason to waste time maintaining it yourselves. It'sll only take you a few
weeks to get the same level of comfort with Rev. 2 1/2 years ago people on
this list couldn't comprehend why people were still using HyperCard. I guess
this is history repeating itself?
Maybe the people lingering here are the ones that only just realised that
Apple has stopped working on HyperCard? Well let me tell you that in 10
years time when you realise that MetaCard corp is no longer working on
MetaCard you will move to Revolution anyway. Why not make the move and get
it over with? If there's something you're not happy with in the IDE then ask
the team to change it. Even spend your time developing a reference
implementation for the runrev team (as I did with the distribution builder)
rather than making your life hard and working on MC.
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