Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

[David Burgun]

>True and the real value of Rev is that the tools are built in the 
>language so we can enhance the core product - the more contributions 
>like Lord Daniels the better!
>
>On 18 Oct 2005, at 01:15, Dan Shafer wrote:
>
>>A couple of you were kind enough to point out that in my exuberant 
>>endorsement of Jerry Daniels' wonderful Constellation Rev IDE, I 
>>came off sounding a bit like the built-in, out-of-the-box Rev IDE 
>>was a piece of crap. Let me set the record straight. It's 
>>wonderful. It has flaws and rough edges and quirks that sometimes 
>>confuse newbies and even oldies. But it's still really a great 
>>product.

As a production tool to be used by professionals it sucks a fair bit 
in my opinion! Other development environments suck too or did during 
their evolution anyway. For instance a lot of CodeWarrior releases 
had the same old bugs in them release after release, some of them 
were not fixed for years. Yet the latest version always had loads of 
new features. I see this mirrored in RunRev too.

I mean I've been using RunRev now for about 2 years, but still:

1.  The debugger refuses to obey breakpoints.
2.  The documentaion is still poor.
3.  It crashes or causes me to ForceQuit at 3 times a day on average 
when I am using it full time for development.
4.  Windows in the IDE never open where you left them, especially 
when you have 2 monitors.
5.  The Script Editor does beswick at least 3 times a day, forcing me 
to restart RunRev.

There are loads more like this, but these are the things that really 
get my goat. I reckon I waste at least an hour a day fighting IDE 
and/or Documentation problems.

Having said all that, it's still a good environment but it could be 
much better. I just wish they would do a major IDE bug fix release, 
especiallly with the Debugger. Putting this ahead of adding any new 
features.

All the Best
Dave