so long

[Dan Shafer]

The departure of a developer of Sean Shao's stature should raise some alarms
in Edinburgh. Like Sarah and many others, I've basically simply ignored OS 9
for the past year or so; any clients still using it are on their own. But I
can understand the need in some markets -- presumably especially education
-- for OS 9 to continue to be supported. If the database stuff truly doesn't
work on OS 9 -- and fails clear back to Rev 2.0 -- then I can appreciate the
decision Sean had to make.

I agree Sean's contributions will be sorely missed.

OTOH, I think it's important for people with less history with the product
than some of us who are now commenting in this thread not to get the
impression that one even serious departure from the fold bodes ill for the
product in general. I can say that Rev 2.6.1 is as solid and stable a
development platform as I've worked on, even with the warts it does have,
and that nothiing else even comes close to letitng me create cross-platform
applications that just flat work, database and all, on every platform I
target.


On 4/2/06, Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/3/06, Sean Shao <shaosean at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > well it's been fun but i can't keep wasting valuable resources trying to
> get
> > the database features of rev to work..  for all my bragging about rev
> and
> > it's ease of use and how it'll make this project so much better than
> doing
> > it as a web-based app, i've basically had enough..
> >
> > rev.. do you guys even bother to do beta testing?! if so, you could
> stand to
> > do a lot more.. if not, i'm more than willing to do testing (for free
> even)
> > and have ample test platforms to ensure that the feature set that you
> say is
> > there does work..
>
> Sorry to see you go Sean. Your contributions have been valued. I
> couldn't be any help since I ditched OS 9 completely as soon as I
> could. Did you contact RunRev support? I've never had to use it myself
> (this list always comes to my rescue) but it's worth a try before
> giving up completely.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
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