Well that's true, but consider Rb started life as a one man show. RS
does listen, but they do tend to do things in their own, stubborn,
sweet way. For YEARS people have been asking for one hold on a new
feature version to properly iron out bugs. If they did only one
release for one calendar year, maybe they would have a chance to sort
everybody's complaints out.
I get the feeling that if they keep changing things they hope bugs
will disappear...
I know they have to keep up to date with stuff, but they really
should fix things first, like the rest of us have to do ! When you
see people here who have been waiting years for a bug fix (and some
of those I remember from when I was last on this list !) then
something is not quite right.
This has been happening all along. First from v1 > v2 it was the new
team of programmers getting to grips with the code, then it was
proper Windows compiling, then it was Carbon, a new compiler, a
Windows IDE, Linux, Rb MwRb, Cocoa, now it's UB, and tomorrow it will
be Vista for Windows. Sure Apple left footed everyone by announcing
the developer transition prog only a week before releasing MacIntels,
but everyone's in the same boat.
Personally, I stopped using Rb when they were developing the Win IDE,
' cos they just seemed to ignore all the bugs in the Mac version.
It's disappointing to see that a couple of years later, and with more
programmers on board, things haven't changed.
It's still a great product, and pretty much the only game in town for
x-platform, but it really is only for hobbyists and not for people
who earn their living from development whilst so many of these
problems exist.
All people have ever been asking for is for RS to forego just one
release out of their hectic roadmap to lock down some of these far
from inconsequential niggles.
On 19 Feb 2006, at 19:41, stephane richard wrote:
I think that, if done right, it will really help them give us the
product we want. I think there's no point to yelling because as
everyone has seen, it doesn't seem to go anywhere to tell them they
suck. Because when you look at what they did give you, no one that
sucks can give you this :-).
Tony Spencer
St Rémy de Provence (13) France
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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