....Or when a company charges for bug fixes buy adding a few minor
enhancements to a product. We didn't upgrade to CW R6 for any of its new
features. We assumed that bugs that were reported in R5 and never fixed as a
patch were fixed in R6... Ha!
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ford, Peter
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:24 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
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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