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[Éric Miclo]

Hello,

I'd like to add some thoughts because in the past 2 months I've used  
a bit the Daniels & Mara suite.

Not everyboby have the same feelings for a piece of software. I  
prefer individual tools that each concentrate on one task and do the  
job as expected. I don't feel well with tools that do a lot of things  
(I'm perhaps somewhat limited). That way I'm able to chose the  
collection of tools that suits me the best. This has nothing to do  
with the quality of the soft.

As for crashing soft, as far I'm concerned, I've only encountered 1  
"crasher" in Constellation (the D&M script editor). It doesn't crash  
Revolution but under certain circumstances Revolution can be somewhat  
stuck.

And Jerry is somebody who listens to users (even to ones that point  
little details :-)) and make Constellation evolve on a daily basis.

The only drawback of his soft is that you can't try it before to buy  
(that said I've bought the suite and I'm very happy with it).

Best regards,

ÉrIC

Le 24 août 05 à 22:23, Richard Gaskin a écrit :

> Charles Hartman wrote:
>
>> (off-list)
>> Richard,
>>  This is terrific -- I just downloaded it & used it for ten  
>> minutes  and I'm already hooked. Frankly, it seems much more  
>> useful (and far  less crash-prone) than the Daniels & Mara suite.
>>
>
> This was apparently intended for private email, but as long as it  
> was posted publicly I feel I should offer some feedback on Jerry  
> Daniels' excellent Rev tools:
>
> In addition to being one of the nicest and most sincerely helpful  
> people I've ever met (maybe second only to Ken Ray, and that's  
> saying a lot as Ken has more integrity in one finger than most of  
> us hope to build over a lifetime), Jerry Daniels is also one of the  
> smartest and most experienced.
>
> If there's any reason why devolution may appear less buggy (which I  
> doubt, if you play with it long enough <g>) it's only because:
>
> a) The Daniels and Mara tools are so much more feature-rich than
>    devolution.
>    I come from a MetaCard background, with an eye for the spartan,
>    and devolution is merely a set of conveniences that myself and
>    my clients use to work a little faster.  The D&M tools are much
>    more ambitious, and as the old saw goes, more code will mean
>    more bugs, at least in a first release.
>
> b) devolution is much older than the D&M tools.
>    Jerry's toolkit is a fairly recent release, so we can expect it
>    to have a few more bugs than it will in v2.0.  That's just how
>    software goes in spite of the best of efforts.  devolution has
>    been in use for almost half a decade in about a dozen shops,
>    and while I update its components every few weeks while I'm
>    working, they've been pounded on a lot and have been through
>    multiple iterations.  I have no doubt the D&M tools will be
>    among the most rock-solid wares in the Rev world in just another
>    release or two -- they're pretty great right now.
>
> If you haven't played with the D&M tools you should check 'em out:
> <http://www.daniels-mara.com/products/>
>
> There's some very inventive thinking there, and lots of good utility.
>
> I hope to see an article about Jerry's tools at revJournal soon...
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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