I think people have some widely divergent ideas about what constitutes a cross platform development environment.
To my mind it should be a case of the anything that you do using just RunRev runs anywhere, but at the same time it should actually support the platform specific features of different operating systems. That way the developer can make informed decisions about how they want to handle cross platform issues when RunRev doesn't natively support something. Adding support for Applescript, XCMDs, ActiveX and whatever the OS-X/unix equivelents might be doesn't reduce the cross-platform capabiilities of RunRev, it increases it. Those are all important parts of the individual platforms, and if you don't consider support for them, it makes the development system too limited to appeal to developers across the board. If you only support the lowest common denominator of what can be supported on ALL platforms, you end up with what is a very limited subset of the power of each individual operating system. ActiveX is a big part of the Windows architecture these days. There are thousands of controls out there already, and it would be great to get access to them. Not being able to makes RunRev much less attractive to Windows users, and there are several of them. For Revolution to really succeed I think it's important that it support platform specific technologies on Windows, Mac, and on Linux, when they are an important part of the operating system. A development system that is best of breed for Windows, Mac, Lijnux AND crossplatform is a much more powerful proposition than one that is just the best Crossplatform system, but not really the best for any particular system. I think that Revolution did the right thing in creating an externals library that supports programmers creating externals that can re-compile for other platforms using the same code, but I think that supoorting the externals architectures that the indivual OSs already supoort is just as important. >----- ------- Original Message ------- ----- >From: Stephen Quinn Barncard ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 12:11:26 > >Huh? My post was about inclusion, not taking out >stuff. Please don't >quote my words out of context for your own imagined >conclusions. > >sqb > >> >> Active X -- Great for windoze folks, useless >for Mac and Unix... >>>> Wouldn't this be against the 'cross platform >concept" of Rev? >>> >>> Exactly ... I think thera are a lot of "Windoze >only to do everything >>> but nothing..." tools, imho we dont need >another one... >>> regards >>> Wolfgang M. Bereuter >>> >>Hmmmm >>So if you can't have it on the Mac, you don't want >it to be possible on the >>PC as well? >>Then how about killing AppleScript support on the >Mac? >> >>Ton Kuypers >_______________________________________________ >use-revolution mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolu >tion _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
