Just to balance a rather irresponsible statement from the poster
below (as there are prospective Rev people on the edge of buying the
product also reading these words ) --
It seems the poster and I are on separate dimensions as I'm working
on a major app, using a great percentage of 2.8 features and don't
see "the scope and bugginess there appears to be in the current Rev
release" that he talks about.
Rev today is LIGHT YEARS more stable and reliable than 3 years ago,
when I first revisited Rev (after passing on the baffling and
unattractive early versions of Metacard). And we can feel the results
of the long conversion from the earlier 'spaghetti' code of earlier
version.
In the poster's own words, he 'haven't personally experienced all of
the "reported" problems' yet he's spewing generalizations about the
product, and making a broad statement of people 'leaving'.
Since this list doesn't seem to be crawling with hundreds of
complaints similar to his, I'll have to assume the poster was
exaggerating, and urge the poster to restrain himself when presenting
broad criticism of the product on the product's mail list.
What is the intention of these baiting posts? To gather consensus to
'kick Rev's ass' into compliance with some kind of populist uprising?
This is a 'How To Use Revolution' list, not the broad complaint
corner.
It must be depressing to be a coder in the thick of bug fixing and
feature design at Rev and hear gross statements like this.
IMO your are 100% on target. Frankly, I'm appalled at the scope and
degree of bugginess there appears to be in the current Rev release.
I don't see how anyone can have confidence in what they are doing as
things stand. Were I working with the types of apps I used to
produce with HC, and foresaw inaccurate or lost data, I'd just throw
up my hands and withdraw from the game. Fortunately, in the fifteen
years my apps were in used with HC, I never had to do that. Since I
haven't personally experienced all of the "reported" problems
mentioned, I can still be somewhat reserved in my criticism; but not
for long. AFAIC, even work-arounds are only acceptable on a VERY
temporary basis. We can only make allowances for "all the great
stuff that Rev does that can't be done any other way" for just so
long. It appears from the temper of this list that this "so long"
could become "adios" for some.
--
stephen barncard
s a n f r a n c i s c o
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