It seems to me that they increment their major version # based
upon the calendar rather than the feature set.
This sounds, as you said, as if it should've been r6.1 ... or perhaps
even r6 update 2!
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Bulmer, Russell wrote in message <33071@palm-dev-forum>...
>
>I've been talking to MetroWerks about r7 here at PalmSource, and I'm
>seriously not impressed. And that's beyond the fact that they have a bunch
>of lame excuses as to why it's delayed and not available for sale yet, and
>why there's a back order already if you want to order a copy...
>
>Anyway... I went to talk to them last night to find out what this new
>release was - I was hoping for auto completing, a back button for
traversing
>code, and loads of cool stuff to warrant a whole version number increase. I
>didn't get that...
>
>They explained how they've made it more stable, removed compiler bugs,
moved
>to the 4.1 IDE, got rid of the BDWM stuff... Hmmm... "doesn't justify a new
>version number really" I though... So I asked them what warranted the jump
>to r7 rather than being 6.1 - they couldn't give me an answer...
>
>Basically it seems like they want us to pay a few hundred bucks for some
bug
>fixes!!! So... we have to pay 'cause their previous version sucked ass???
As
>I said... I'm not impressed at all...
>
>
>It's probably worth mentioning that you don't need r7 to run the PalmOS 4.0
>SDK (*) - the 4.0 SDK works fine under r6.
>
>(*) - in fact it doesn't come with the 4.0 SDK, it comes with the 3.5 SDK
>(which they were proud to tell me - whoop.... congratulations you're only 1
>release behind now...)
>
>
>Cheers
>Russell
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Konstantin Klyatskin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: 13 December 2000 08:52
>> To: Palm Developer Forum
>> Subject: CW r7.
>>
>>
>> http://www.metrowerks.com/products/palm/
>>
>> no announce here... or have I missed it?
>> Anybody tried? What's a feeling?
>>
>> K.
>>
>>
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