- Debug was painfully slow when single stepping.
We worked on debug speed in the V9 release, but it's not a lot faster -- there's a lot of data that gets refreshed from the device or emulator after every step.
- Seemed to require upgrading for every SDK. Wouldn't be much of an issue, but for the fact that upgrading often broke my toolchain and gave me the usual Windows syndrome of half-baked installs.
CW updates were needed to match the version used by Palm/PalmSource to build sample projects, and sometimes to fix issues. For example, USB debugging was added for Visors in V7, updated for Palm devices in V8, and and single stepping was fixed for OS 5 devices in V9.
- Makes these weirdo .frk directories and zero-length files, and all around messes up my source controls with its binary "touching" goodness. One time, I parked a 100% working project, and several months later I opened it up again, and it wouldn't build!
That's an artifact of Constructor. V9 still uses Constructor if you want, but defaults to a new Palm OS 68K Linker and PilRC for resources.
-- Ben Combee, Senior Software Engineer, palmOne, Inc. "Combee on Palm OS" weblog: http://palmos.combee.net/ Developer Forum Archives: http://news.palmos.com/read/all_forums/
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