Ben,
You are making the assumption that bug is in code we have access to
or control over. If we could fix the bug we would have.
The issue lies in a portion of an external library that was licensed
by pervasive from a 3rd Party (and subsequently us) which gave them
the ability to do a lot of cross platform functions. With the
introduction of OS X and the carbon lib a few of these functions do
not work as they used to and with subsequent releases of OS X the
issue became worse. Try as we may we were not able to convince the
developer to update or maintain their library or secure the source
code we needed. Removing the framework to fix the issue meant we had
to rewrite a major portion of the Dev Studio.
With the Tango 2000 and Witango 5.x Dev Studios based on number of
now obsolete libraries, frameworks and APIs on both platforms we had
no choice but to redevelop the Dev Studio from the ground up which we
have been doing for the last 2 years to ensure we can continue to
support it.
These issues do not affect the server. The 5.5 server is based on
code we have written and open source libraries that will ensure it
can be upgraded and maintained well into the future.
Keep an eye out for the first public beta of the 6.0 Dev Studio next
week for all operating systems with a JRE 6.0. There are still a few
glitches we are working on but we are pretty sure it is fully
backward compatible with Witango Server 5.5.
Regards
Phil
On 13/04/2007, at 11:01 AM, Ben Johansen wrote:
It is unconscionable for a vendor to have such a blatant bug in
software and not deal with it.
this is going on 2 years, of knowing it has this issue and not
fixing it.
and selling it as if there is not a problem.
I really appreciate getting pressure and being accused of wasting
time, just to find out that it was this bug that should have been
fixed.
No this is not just a Mac issue. It happens, though not as much in
Windows version of Dev Studio
I caution anyone that is working on a high profile site and using
this product. you better check each and every file after every save
because the dev studio can't be trusted
Ben
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