Does anybody know of a list tracking the features vs bugs in each successive
version of CW? It sounds like it's getting worse with each successive
revision. I'm not basing this on any personal experience (I use v3.3.2)
just on what I'm hearing on the list. I agree that there is way too much
swallowing of bugs and especially (IMHO) "fatware", particularly in the PC
software market, just for the sake of "it's new!".
----- Original Message -----
From: Ford, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 1:24 PM
Subject: RE: Codewarrior using Windows folder!!! (offtopic/religious)
> Testing (or lack of) is one thing, selling something that's badly
> put together is something else. We paid something around $360 for CW6 and
as
> Patrick pointed out, half of the help files are missing from the CD.
That's
> not a bug, that's carelessness or bad QA. All my project sources have the
> name "Starter.c", because of the way the project stationery is set up. I'm
> sure it's easy to fix, too, but the documentation is inadequate. Palm:
> either get the help info on CD, or make the manual 5 times as thick. And
> please create help files, or a manual, for Constructor.
>
> I actually like CW6... once you've found your way around it it's
> easy to use and it works OK. But it's the niggling little points that
spoil
> it. At the risk of sounding like I'm ranting... I've been in the
programming
> trade for 20 years, and for the last five or so I've been increasingly
> concerned by the quality of software being churned out and (more
disturbing,
> in my book) the fact that people just accept the junk they're sold. The
> manufacturers excuse themselves by telling everyone that you've got to
> expect bugs. Up to a point that's true, but it's criminal to sell products
> *knowing* that they're full of serious bugs, just because you have to get
to
> market ahead of the competition. The worst thing is that the buying public
> lets them get away with it. It doesn't have to be that way.
>
> </rant>
>
> Pete
>
>
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