Re: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Joe
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before I get too involved with my development project(s) would anyone like to share their opinions or experiences when dealing with CodeWarrior versus the other 'free' choices for application tools? TANSTAAFL

Re: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Dave Lippincott
I don't use the free tools but maybe YGWYPF applies. - Original Message - From: Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 9:18 AM Subject: Re: Comparison Commentary? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before I get too involved with my

RE: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Borislav Kolev
Before I get too involved with my development project(s) would anyone like to share their opinions or experiences when dealing with CodeWarrior versus the other 'free' choices for application tools? I believe the main reason for choosing CodeWarrior vs GNU is on the management side. CW

Re: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Dave Lippincott
03, 2002 11:17 AM Subject: RE: Comparison Commentary? Before I get too involved with my development project(s) would anyone like to share their opinions or experiences when dealing with CodeWarrior versus the other 'free' choices for application tools? I believe the main reason for choosing

RE: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Borislav Kolev
hey! me use codewarrior. don't liking being called less brighter. me now sad. go make new tetris program to cheer up. ;-) Me uses CW too, if that will make you feel better :-/ If it doesn't, treat yourself among the exceptions I mentioned. If it still doesn't nothing will help...you're doomed

RE: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Brian Smith
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Borislav Kolev wrote: GNU developers are often brighter, but harder to manage and somewhat harder to find just when you need them. Hey, if someone were looking for one, I'd be more than happy to make myself known. It probably wouldn't take long for a GNU developer to get

RE: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread alanp
months, I have been able to do everything that I have wanted to do and don't see much of a need to use CW. alan ---Original Message--- From: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:02:22 -0500 (EST) Subject: RE: Comparison

RE: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Matt Hebley
At 12:02 PM 3/4/2002 -0500, you wrote: Hey, if someone were looking for one, I'd be more than happy to make myself known. It probably wouldn't take long for a GNU developer to get the hang of CW, though... at least from hearing stories on here, some things seem easier with it (like doing

RE: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Aaron Ardiri
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Borislav Kolev wrote: GNU developers are often brighter, but harder to manage and somewhat harder to find just when you need them. heh.. this made me laugh today.. any implications here bobby? :P I think a good developer should be able to deal with both, but a good

RE: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Aaron Ardiri
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, me too! If someone wants to pay me to write Palm apps ... heh.. now now, thats what we all want :) I started using the GNU stuff because writing Palm apps is a hobby for me and I couldn't afford to buy tools. (All of my apps are available

RE: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Brian Smith
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Matt Hebley wrote: Woah! You wanna go from GNU to CW! You have to go from learning from documentation in order to be able to write scripts, to aimlessly browsing through config windows and clicking on checkboxes without actually knowing what you are doing... The point

RE: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Matt Hebley
At 01:31 PM 3/4/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Matt Hebley wrote: Woah! You wanna go from GNU to CW! You have to go from learning from documentation in order to be able to write scripts, to aimlessly browsing through config windows and clicking on checkboxes without actually

Re: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Chris DiPierro
i messed with prc-tools way back with prc-tools 0.5.0 and getting multi segmented applications using multilink (man, that was nasty) then, the latest incarnation with prc-tools wasn't too bad, once you knew what was going on.. codewarrior.. just create code segment and drag and

RE: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Borislav Kolev
prc-tools was at that point (it may be better now) a good hobbiest tool if you don't care about developing apps for a living (or from a business perspective), but CW is much better for any serious development. With that said, I still can't justify a CW v8 upgrade since v7.1 works just fine (sorry

Re: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Chris DiPierro
Catapult's public version only has two copyright lines to distinguish it from the Commercial version and seems to be doing very well. Because Catapult is the only alternative to expensive Installshield. When you're paying $100, you're getting a bargain. CW8 is a whole lot better in working

RE: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Borislav Kolev
I don't know why I need to care about a4 support to be honest. I'm sure there's a reason, but I've never needed it thus far. Can you elaborate on the better emulator support? CW7.1 works 95% correctly with the emulator for me /w only one problem In know of (when an app crashes while debugging,

Re: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Tutty
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before I get too involved with my development project(s) would anyone like to share their opinions or experiences when dealing with CodeWarrior versus the other 'free' choices for application tools? It's not an easy question because it's not 'all or nothing'. When

Re: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Matt Disher (TiBook)
Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:10:30 -0600 To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Comparison Commentary? Could be a result of the Emulator itself evolving in the meantime too, to be honest. With 7.0 it used to hang very often and I had to close both

Re: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Joe
--- Matt Disher (TiBook) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I for one still have this problem bad enough that I've given up using it [CodeWarrior] on windows and have gone back to the Mac. On the pro CW side: I've used 4 different versions of CW on two different machines (running Win98, Win98SE,

Re: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Matt Disher (TiBook)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:01:43 -0800 (PST) To: Palm Developer Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Comparison Commentary? --- Matt Disher (TiBook) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I for one still have

Re: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Ben Combee
In article 82668@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... I for one still have this problem bad enough that I've given up using it on windows and have gone back to the Mac. Out of 3 windows boxes available to me, only _one_ works marginally well where I can run a debug session more than

Re: Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-03 Thread Ben Combee
In article 82662@palm-dev-forum, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... While I am unhappy with the lack of progress CodeWarrior has shown in years from v5 to v8 and consider the upgrade price too high it is, overall, a good development environment with good tools. I suspect that the work involved in

Comparison Commentary?

2002-04-02 Thread pete_cesarz
Greetings, Before I get too involved with my development project(s) would anyone like to share their opinions or experiences when dealing with CodeWarrior versus the other 'free' choices for application tools? -Pete -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe,