-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan [SNIP] - RB 2006R4 crashes at least once an hour, often each 30 minutes, thus it is wise to safe very often [SNIP]
Which makes it a hard time to recommend it as a development environment. I came on the RealBasic boat back in version 4, and with each version I liked it more. But my gut feeling is that post version 5.5 ( that is from the day the unified GUI came to stay ), RB has been heading downhill. My biggest complaints would be: 1) Stability ( I write a lot in Java using four different developer tools depending on the application I'm writing and the team I'm writing it with. None of them has stability issues, and only one has memory handling issues, requiring it to be restarted once every 10 days or so ). RB seems to have a lot less of it recently. 2) Updates ( back in the 4/5.* days, you bought a license, and you would get updates for that license while there where any to be had. That ment that if a serious flaw was detected in f.ex. 5.5.1 RealSoftware would come out with 5.5.2 which fixed the flaw. Now, if you "buy in" at rb2006/1 and it's bugged, you get updates as long as your subscription is valid, but if all the updates happen to be bugged and your subscription ends, you basically have a broken product. ) I never liked the subscription model, and I still don't do, for reasons I find obvious. And I truly think that the rapid release model should be completely re-evaluated, since the releases are neither rapid, nor complete releases, but more of a constant beta-testing model, never truly reaching the "release" part of it. Sorry if this horse has already been brutally beaten to death, but I've been storing this inside for too long :) /Þór PS: For the record, I started with RB on Mac, but my Java development all takes place on Windows. _______________________________________________ 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>
