Rev 2.02/New pricing

[Geoff Canyon]

On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 05:31  PM, Edwin Gore wrote:

> I don't think that they can honestly say that the studio product 
> allows you to create applications for all supported platforms, since 
> it's impossible to TEST the applications without using another one of 
> the products.

You have a point, but: show of hands -- who here has built an app for 
another platform without ever testing on that platform and had it just 
work? And who has had the exact opposite experience; serious 
platform-specific issues that required working on that platform to fix?

> Also, isn't it impossible to build a Mac standalone under Windows or 
> Linux? That means that if you want to deliver for the Mac you will 
> need to buy at least a copy of Express to do so (for more than thirty 
> days), unless they are planning to create a new "Macintosh Standalone 
> Builder" that is runs on the Mac and does nothing but build 
> Standalones from existing stacks that were developed elsewhere.

You can build for OS X on other platforms, just not for OS <=9. 
Obviously this issue is getting smaller as time passes.

regards,

Geoff Canyon
gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com