Sometimes decisions need to be made that are not easy ones. If you
develop for a living and you are not happy with the current version of
the tool you use, but have a prior version of the tool you are happy
with, you need to decide if you are going to wait it out and see how
development of said tool is progressing (RB2006, RB2007,..), or change
tools. Yes it isn't fun to change from one coding platform to another,
and it does involve a lot of work, taking the code bank to the other
platform, but sometimes it has to be done. You can't possibly stick with
something that is no longer supported and if the new version really
doesn't do what you want....
At the moment we have code in VB6.0, code in VBA (Ms Access), code in
C++ and a small part of the project is even in Runtime Revolution. We
used to have code in Java.
Our next big project is moving 300000 lines of code from VBA to
Realbasic. Not fun, probably lots of unforeseen problems, but it needs
to be done. Why Realbasic ? Because it is cross platform. We develop on
windows, but some of our potential customers (building construction
companies) use a mac, and we'd like to be able to sell to those
companies as well. Also because Realbasic offers all the functions we
need in our software. I am happy with RB so far, and the only thing I am
waiting for in order to get really productive is the version control
integration.
Dirk Cleenwerck
Chief programmer
Useitgroup NV
Belgium
Sven E Olsson wrote:
Are you saying this to an user that used RB for years, spent time on
learning, spent time on developing modules, and
today have an 'code bank' ? (that he/she could drop in the trash) And
also have customers to support?
(Only an hobbyist could say like you do!)
If an upgrade doesn't work the way you like, go back to the old version.
The same, Only an hobbyist could say like you do!
The 'old' version is not supported longer, no bug fix...
And how long would it works on my OS before I have to drop it?
Don't make this problem so simple, try listening on they that
complains, mostly of them are old users
that have 'sponsored' RS for years.
Ask: Why are you using RB555, when you could use RB2005/2006, and
take notice about the answers.
Nope, nobody is interested, it is more important to put the users in
an box 'noisy' and 'not noisy'. And if you are
'noisy' ... don't help him on the list, only 'not nosy' ....
Perhaps it also depends on what OS you are using.
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