From: Charles Burkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:31:51 -0500
Pretty much any app on your list could be done in RB, in some cases
with a
little help from C libraries for certain types of speed critical
operations.
But, as has been pointed out, most of your list existed before RB.
And
competitive features, UI, and performance are not a guarantee of
"world
class killer" status. That takes good marketing (or being really
good and
first to market) as well.
I pretty much agree with you on this point except for one caveat.
Most or all of those application required large teams to code them.
RealBasic is pretty large-team unfriendly
Even with external items?
I personally wish RB gave us greater access to the external items. RB
does not make it immediately obvious and glaring how to make code
items external or internal. It should be doable at the click of a
button. There should be an "Internalise/Externalise" button, for
which you can apply to all your code items, just by doing "select
all, then click button".
Also, RB needs to make sure that it doesn't lose track external items
so easily, the "connections" can be lost too easily. It doesn't seem
to have any relative path (or any path) management. You can't tell
that external item X exists in "<project>/code/X.rb", which would be
good because it'll stay like that no matter where you move or copy it.
And RB needs to give us handy demo projects to show us that external
items can be used easily. I always find it much more awkward to use
external items in RB, than it is to use an ordinary .cpp file in an
ordinary app like Xcode. I don't know why... something about it is
awkward. If RS are using external items more, they'll fix the
awkwardness with them.
, what with the difficulty
of using a good revision control system allowing for concurrent
development.
Is that just because RB has it's own binary file format? CVS systems
tend to work on text, like C++ or Java or XML.
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