On Jul 21, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Carlos M wrote:
On Jul 21, 2006 11:16 PM, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
I think RS must pay big attention to the following:
New features do not have any value to customers (mainly
to current) if they cannot use a new release due to
important bugs that were not fixed or are new!
Some of these new features you guys are so scared of, have
also made it possible for me to release software.
New features never scared me of! The main problem is with old bugs
not getting fixed!
I'm not an apologist for Rb but consider a few facts.
1) Many people complained about the IDE changes between 5.5 and 2005.
RS bent over backward to satisfy many of their wishes.
2) How many times have you added options to your own software only to
find that including them requires a lot of refactoring of your code.
Time is consumed, and being finite, distracts from solving older
problems.
3) How many times have you spent a lot of time on fixing a problem to
only find that your fixes may not work because the OS has or will be
changing in the near future.
I honestly think that the switch to Intel chips on Mac and Universal
binaries was 'relatively' sudden and unexpected. The OS itself is in
such a state of flux that it's quite difficult to make future plans
for any software developer. Once Apple is satisfied with it's
software, they release the API's to other developers. Therefore, I
feel that RS is also feeling the pinch and possibly doing all it can
do to keep up with the changes.
It's far too easy to say Rb is buggy now whereas it was great before
without taking all of the recent events into consideration.
Terry
PS. I do agree that RS should put more emphasis on fixing bugs as
opposed to new features.
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