Bush-like weasel words about standalone

Stephen Barncard stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com
Wed Dec 21 22:29:06 EST 2005


Hmmm. Preston - you aren't that new here, you've been posting since 
11/05. You have just noticed this?

If you are dissing the so-called "Earth Shoe and VW Bus OS" why 
should you care to develop for it at all?  Furthermore, it's just the 
development for OS 9, not OSX, that is affected.

Look, Rev is a great tool to help bridge 'platform bigotry' and it's 
always recommended to have an Enterprise License and a machine 
running the IDE for every platform for testing and final tweaking.

It's absurd to expect the level perfection you seem to want from this 
software. The fact is that Rev has made it a hell of a lot easier to 
develop cross-platform applications than any other product that I've 
seen.

sqb

>The Revolution Website promises:
>
>Revolution allows you to create true standalone applications for any 
>of the major platforms - Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and Classic. 
>Develop on the operating system of your choice and preview the look 
>and feel of your target platform. Develop Linux and Unix 
>applications on Windows, develop Windows applications on Mac OS X - 
>you have total flexibility over where you develop and where you 
>deliver. And when you deliver, you don't incur additional license or 
>royalty fees - maximising your revenue and pricing flexibility, 
>while minimising your administration.
>
>.. so, imagine my dismay when, having bought the product, spent a 
>month learning to use it (sorta) and having developed my project as 
>a standalone, I discovered from the conference on standalones that:
>
>Note that the Mac OS option will not be available if you are running 
>on Windows or Linux. Due to the way MacOS works, you can only build 
>MacOS standalones using a Macintosh, though you can do it under Mac 
>OS X if you like.
>
>I went back to the sweeping assertions and noticed that "Develop 
>Linux and Unix applications on Windows, develop Windows applications 
>on Mac" doesn't say you can develop Mac standalones on Windows - 
>only that one can preview the look and feel. Like "weapons of mass 
>destruction related program activities," one has to look carefully 
>to find out what it means by what it says." OK, I should have known 
>better. I'm not really even sore. But I would like to know what I'm 
>going to have to do to make a standalone for the Earth Shoe and VW 
>Bus OS. I've tried the Rev. docs (Ha! I should have known after a 
>month of ownership) and the otherwise admirable Rev.net on-line. Can 
>anyone point me in the right direction?

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