dammit

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Talluto wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2004, at 10:27 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>     I hate to lose my cool, but I can't get a day's work done with the
>     current state of the error messages coming from the v2.6 engine.
> 
>     I can usually sort through my own code without it, but I've
>     inherited a large and nasty code base written in alien logic, and
>     there's no reliable means of identifying the source of errors.
> 
>     Am I the only one who finds this a show-stopper?
>     Have y'all worked out a solution and forgot to share? :)
> 
>     How does the Rev IDE cope with it?
> 
>     If there was ever an argument for an emergency dot-dot release,
>     making it possible to know what errors are occurring would seem the
>     irrefutable case....
> 
> 
> It is a massive problem for both IDEs. I usually have to go back to MC 
> 2.5 to figure out obscure problems. They show up correctly once I 
> transition. I don't know about everyone else, but I have three folder 
> with different version of MC and Rev to make it through the day. Lots of 
> time is wasted moving from one version to the other. I only pray that 
> 2.3 gives us a working engine.

Too far down the road for me.  I need the native appearances in Rev v2.2 
(MC v2.6), and can't put off all development until Rev v2.3 appears.

One solution might be to make copy that one fix into the v2.2 code base 
and release a v2.2.1 engine to the FTP site.

Would that get your vote?

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