"Bryan Nystrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> So, it sounds like outside of USB debugging support (which will mainly
> benefit hardware developers because most developers probably use POSE),
> there isn't any new features in R7. (I don't consider an improved "find" a
> feature, just catching up with the more mature editors). $190 for bug
fixes
> that should have been in R6 (or is that R5, because I remember the same
> upgrade scam being pulled from R5 to R6). Here we go again.
Come on -- the CW people are working very hard to add features and fix bugs.
Saying that $190 is too much for a year's worth of work put into a product
seems petty -- its like saying that you should get all the upgrades from a
2001 car in your 2000 car because some stuff didn't work well.
I also think that you did get quite a bit of value in CW 6 -- they did issue
bug fixes with the 3.5 SDK update, and even ones after that with the
debugger updates. At some point, they have to shift from supporting an
existing version to putting in features for a new version. Having worked on
their 2.4 compiler (updated from the 2.3 compiler in R6), there were several
man-years of work put into improving the C++ front end, making the IR
optimizer perform better, fixing loads of bugs, and so on.
CW is a process. It gets better, and its driven by feedback. Engineers
aren't free, and you have to pay for the work done to really improve things.
--
Ben Combee
Veriprise Wireless <http://www.veriprise.com>
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