My apologies for the furious mail. It is one of those
days....
"Heather Tufts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:28919@palm-dev-forum...
>
> > Does this mean your patches are mutually exclusive? and work
> > only on certain platforms and fail on others?
> > To answer your question - I am using NT 4 SP 6 on PII/128.
>
> This is not the intent, though we are aware that fixes to one bug have
> created new bugs in other parts of the software.
>
> > The issue is not about whether your software has bugs or not.
> > Why can't you just have two versions of the software - "Most
> > stable version"
> > (say 5.1.2...) and the "Latest version" (6.0.3) etc...
>
> Since our software comes on CD, it is difficult to make several versions
of
> a piece of software available. Would you have our sales people ask each
> customer which they would like to have shipped to them? This is different
> from the Emulator (but only slightly) since it is not downloadable over
the
> web.
>
> > reliably every time to a PRC and will never destroy my source.
> > (before someone suggests gcc... don't, I already use it & I am happy
> > with it)
>
> I am not denying that our software has bugs. I know it does. I maintain
> the buglist. However, I am simply asserting that it is very difficult for
> me to track down issues and get them logged and fixed with only vague
>
> references such as this. Do you have a project where you can show me how
> the CodeWarrior complier destroys your source? If our compiler is
> corrupting executables, we absolutely want to get that fixed ASAP.
However,
> be aware that code that compiles under GCC is not guaranteed to compile
> under our compiler. Partly, this is because ours is ANSI-compliant, and
GCC
> has some added features that, if used and then compiled with a compiler
that
> doesn't support those added features, may not compile cleanly, or at all.
>
> > You guys were not able to make even the compiler stable
> > (forget the IDE which may be a really complicated piece of
> > software). How could we trust anything generate by the compiler
> > which swaps numerator with denominator in a division!!, corrupts
> > a bitmap while it is being linked in, and a linker which generates
> > a GPF once in a while.
>
> This is the kind of statement that I have difficulty resolving. You say
our
> compiler is not stable, but when you come across issues, you haven't
> reported them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that
they
> can be logged and fixed. The numerator/denominator swapping issue was
with
> R5, and a patch was released to fix that as soon as we were made aware of
it
> and got it fixed (check http://www.metrowerks.com/download/ and search for
> patches released with CW for Palm R5 for that patch). Are you using
release
> 5 on Win2k? That might be part of the problem. The 3.5 SDK, Update 1,
and
> the debugger plugins will not work with R5. I'm not aware of bitmaps
being
> corrupted while being linked in. Which version of the linker/post-linker
> are you using? Could you send me a reproducible case so it can get fixed?
> I would also like to see a reproducible case of the general protection
fault
> you mention.
>
> Our software is not perfect. I and everyone else at Metrowerks recognize
> that, and we apologize for any issues you have had with our software.
Just
> realize that we want to make our product the best it can be. We need your
> feedback and bug reports in order to make that happen. I simply can't use
> the tools as extensively as any of you do to be able to find every bug
that
> exists in this environment.
>
> So, send your reports in. Send reproducible cases. The more issues I can
> get logged, the more that can get fixed.
>
> -hkmlt
>
>
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