Hi William,
Economy-x-Talk does all the things you mention for clients. I think
there are more people on this list who have already invented their own
systems to save preferecnes, make installers, get the versioning right
etc.
I don't expect RunRev Ltd to create a general-purpose solution for
each of the issues in your list, because everybody will need something
slightly different. We will probably all end up creating our own
systems anyway. If you would like to have a solution customized to
your needs, feel free to contact me off-list.
Btw, I believe there is an installer maker included in the sales
package offered by RunRev.
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Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
http://economy-x-talk.com
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On 5 dec 2008, at 15:18, william humphrey wrote:
I've never made software that anyone else had to use so I never
noticed how
many things are missing in RunRev.
1. There is an excellent menu builder.
2. There is no preference file builder. This should call a sqlite
plist file
or something for your program so it can load the information
necessary to
run any version of your software. It should also have a flag so you
can know
if the computer is meant to host the server or if it is one of the
clients.
It needs user name, host name, database name, password, and all
kinds of
other stuff like whether it is a Valentina server or a MySQL server.
3. There is no automatic "update my program from a remote server on
the
internet". This is something everyone is familiar with in commercial
software and it is crazy (in my opinion) to make every developer re-
write
this. The above preference file would be necessary first especially
if you
also update the database schema and have to run a back-up of that data
first.
4. Serial number versioning system and protection scheme for unlocking
compiled copies of your program after a 30 day trial period. Every
commercial software has this too. I read this list about various
people
trying to invent this. Shouldn't it be available for everyone?
It seems to me that there are many genius developers on this mailing
list.
Why can't one come forward (like maybe Andre for the automatic
update my
program over the internet substack) and the rest of us all offer him
$100 a
piece to make that substack? In these down economic times maybe a
socialist
solution like this would be a good idea? Unless, of course, some one
is
already working on these solutions or has them already and will sell
them
for a reasonable price?
Thanks, I'm going to go back in my grass hut now...
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