William, RR isn't the only RAD/IDE that does not do or provide these functions. RR is a general purpose development environment, and none of the ones I use include such niceties. However, there are numerous add-ons that people have developed. If one of these does not meet your needs, you have just discovered a new product market for yourself.
On the item of preferences, there are so many OTHER ways to implement this that using your proposed solution is actually more complicated, IMHO, than using many of the other options. It probably works better for you than any of mine, so go for it! Automatic updates are already implemented in numerous RR stacks, including (if memory serves me right) RevZilla, GLX2, and even RR itself, so the source code should be trivial to find. I prefer to NOT have an updater, and none of the development environments that I use include a functionality built-in. Every solution to the problem has uglies associated with it, which means that you have engineering decisions to make before implementation. I have never even considered giving one to my users in Version and serial number control is a common problem in every environment with a multitude of solutions. Some of those (actually MANY of those) are commercial. NONE of the solutions are ideal. I can think of at least ten that are completely and radically different from each other. Which one is the one RR should implement? Why should the rest of us have to put up with THAT one? Anyway, have no fear. RR is flexible, so write what you want and sell it. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
