use-revolution Digest, Vol 23, Issue 74

[Joel Guillod]

Mark,

I have no idea if you are hired by Runrev to write the API and  
documentation for the external. So the following should possibly be  
applied to Runrev. But before filling a blocking bug, let me kindly  
go on your reply.
We stayed tuned since a long while but now I actually need a proper  
documentation for the SDK and probably that RunRev published all the  
API.
I have hired an engineer for writing specific C externals we use in  
medical image processing (malignant melanoma screening). Can we make  
professionnal business with Revolution or should we consider it not  
for serious? Can you tell us how long we have to wait for clean API  
externals and documentation? Of course you understand that I  cannot  
pay workers to wait. Because I have been a first days Hypercard/ 
Supercard/CompileIt! user, I was confident that our development could  
succeed on Revolution. Now in our development stage we urgently need  
to integrate our C code in the externals for MacOSX/Windows and Linux  
in a second step. This month not in October! You could reply that I  
had to test the external SDK before but this is a marketing issue  
from Runrev that I have trusted based on their annonced features of  
Revolution. Also it would be completely unfair (possibly a legal  
offence) that only restricted or selected developers can make  
professional business by coding externals properly. The very  
experienced engineer I hired has just droped me this note about the  
external SDK: «Considering what they give, it is clear that they do  
not want that people make externs...». Yes we have been able to build  
something but we want to do it professionally and safely. I dont want  
to have my application regularly crashed the way I experiment it with  
externals I have paid for recently (this is another debate, ok)...

Well, I am still entrusting that a robust and documented solution  
will be published soon. All the Revolution community will benefit  
from that and this will enable Runrev to grow in consideration of  
professional developers, simply considering the many external plugins  
available for other competitors IDE and their success. Today let us  
know the delay, please!

Sincerely,

Joel Guillod

> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 09:27:31 -0700
> From: Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>
>
> Joel-
>
> Sunday, August 21, 2005, 12:19:31 AM, you wrote:
>
>
>> feedback, did I miss something? Is there an other complete
>> documentation for externals?
>>
>
> Stay tuned.
>
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net