Why choose Revolution

[Dan Shafer]

Hey, David....

Thanks for jumping in with the correction. Sorry I misstated the case  
vis a vis Windows platform debugging and deployment.

Dan

On Jul 25, 2005, at 12:55 PM, David Grogono wrote:

> On Jul 23, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Dan Shafer <revdan at danshafer.com> wrote:
>
>
>> First, understand my comments about RealBASIC apply to Version 5.5. I
>> have not looked at RB2005. I spent a fair amount of time looking at
>> RB vs. Rev before I made the commitment to Rev about two years ago  
>> now.
>>
>> That said, I believe you'll find creating Windows apps on OS X much
>> easier and more direct with Rev than with RB. Rev's IDE runs on
>> Windows so you can, with the right license, debug, test and fix your
>> apps directly on Windows. Last time I looked, RB lets you *deploy* an
>> app on Windows but if it breaks, you have to go back to the Mac to
>> fix it and then re-deploy it. My guess is that would become tiresome
>> and inefficient in a real hurry.
>>
>
> Hi Dan -
>
> Since version 5.1 (April 2003), REALbasic has provided a Windows  
> version of the IDE.  REALbasic also offers remote debugging which  
> allows one to easily test and/or debug a project on another  
> platform without the hassle of moving the source code.
>
>
>>> - I suppose that maturity is not a problem for Mac, but what about
>>> Windows and Linux?
>>>
>>
>> See earlier comments re windows. Linux is farther along on Rev than
>> on RB by quite a but but frankly neither tool does all that good a
>> job there from what my limited testing and listening to this list
>> reveals.
>>
>
> If Linux support is important to Jose then he should evaluate the  
> latest version of both products.
>
> Best regards, David
> --
> David Grogono
> REALbasic Product Manager
> dave at realsoftware.com
> www.realsoftware.com
>
>
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