On Jul 22, 2006 1:23 AM, Terry Ford wrote: > 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.
I never said RB is/was buggy! I use RB every single day and I have VS 2005 ;) What I did was to make a *suggestion* to RS with the intention to help in order to find a good way to solve this old problem with bugs not getting fixed, that I'm sure you are also tired of reading about it on this list. > PS. I do agree that RS should put more emphasis on fixing bugs as > opposed to new features. Agreed, and I thing RS should give priority fixing old bugs (pssst RS, don't forget those related with ActiveX and WebBrowser). --- A small example (somewhat related with this subject) of why not fixing bugs faster might be a bad business practice to RS. I started with RB 5.5.4 for Windows with standard edition - the pro edition didn't have anything that I needed - and I only develop for Windows. When RS launched 2005 they introduced Container Controls and I become very interested on this new pro feature - it's the only feature that makes me upgrade to the pro. Anyway, I decided to wait and see how it was working with other users and it was not a big surprise to see some bugs on the first 2005 releases. What was a big surprise to me was not seeing RS fixing most of the Container control bugs on the next releases - this is a pro feature that might get users to the pro version. As of today, for Container control there are (on the feedback system) 48 valid reports (51 minus the 3 closed). From these 4 are not bugs (1 cosmetic and 3 feature requests). So we have 44 bugs and *only* 9 were fixed - only 20.45% of bugs fixed! Any user that becomes interested on upgrading RB to pro because of the Container controls will think twice (or more) if they just check the bug report list for this control! Carlos _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
