On 12/15/10 7:03 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:34 -0500, "Ed Leafe"<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I guess my question would be: there are lots of other products out >> there that enable you to do the same sorts of things, many of which are low- >> or no-cost; why would> you choose Servoy's solution over them (besides the >> massive marketing effort)? > > I don't use it, but the attraction for me would be that it's an > all-in-one integrated solution so you don't have to worry about an IDE > from here, debugger from there, report designer from somewhere else ...
I can understand the attraction of a monolithic development environment. You get to know the tool and things behave relatively consistently in one subtool as another. But one of the arguments for a more modular approach is that you can pick the best fit for the particular task, and you avoid lock-in. I miss a lot of the the experience of living in the VFP IDE, but I'm pretty happy with my current development environment: Ubuntu 10.4, with lots of terminal windows open vim editor with Python syntax highlighting Python language wxPython crossplatform UI toolkit reportlab for pdf creation SQLite for in-memory and single-user databases Any popular database for multi-user databases Subversion source control Local apache web server for testing web applications Dabo high-level desktop application framework Sorry, I know this reply veers a bit from the original subject, but I was replying to monolithic versus modular development environments in general. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
