Windows Portable???

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 08/03/2010 19:56, Lynn Fredricks wrote:
>> I actually liked the U3 idea, because it let developers
>> safely allow installs on removable media so they could be
>> used anywhere. It's all about DRM.
>>      
One can also do the same sort of thing with a Live Linux USB containing 
the 'normal'
RunRev for Linux version on it.

This has, to my mind, a  significant advantage over the U3 - Windows 
idea, in that,
RunRev Studio or Enterprise for Linux can spin off a Windows standalone, 
but the
OS on the USB key will not be prone to Windows viruses.

The silly thing is that Apple have been "funny" about a bootable USB 
version of
Mac OS X.

It should be comparatively easy to build a Mac OS 9 bootable CD with the 
last
Mac OS Classic RunRev on it; but one rather wonders why one would bother.
>> At Revcon II there was a guy from the company that gave a a
>> half hour demonstration. Lynn, you were there.
>>      
> Yes, indeed - I invited them :-)
>
>    
>>   I immediately lost interest when it was announced to be a
>> "windows only"
>> feature. Judging by the number of Power/Macbooks in the
>> crowd, I wasn't alone.
>>
>> It was an odd moment of Rev promoting a platform-specific feature.
>>      

Well (b*tchy moment coming up), as quite a few features that function 
better in the
Mac and Win versions of the current RunRev version one could say the 
same thing
vis-a-vis Mac/Win versus Linux.

One could also point out (and I can tell you that I do NOT like 
Windows), that whatever
Mac and Linux devotees feel, Windows IS the dominant OS at the moment; 
and as
the folks at Runtime Revolution have to fill their fridges, pay bills, 
and so forth, it
would be very odd indeed if they didn't take that into account.

I merrily pump out Windows standalones of my Devawriter, and, surprise, 
surprise,
that is the version that is downloaded most.  Frankly I would be a 
'silly prune' not
to release a Windows build just because I don't like Windows - I want to
empower and enable as many people as I can with my little thing.

I DO SO WISH I could release a Linux version, but, until the font problem is
sorted out that is out of the question. Most unfortunate.

> That's true - but consider also that it wouldn't be in Runtime's interest to
> narrow all promotion to the cross-platform message. Cross platform is a key
> product feature of Revolution, and it does it so very well. But if you are
> also developing only for one platform that isnt the Mac, it shouldn't be
> dismissed either as a solution.
>
> There are Windows focused developers out there that have a negative gut
> reaction (still) with products tightly associated with Mac. Whatever your
> feelings about them, they still use the same type of currency as other OS
> users :-)
>    
Yup, Bulgaria is full of them.
> One of the things I am very pleased about with releases after Revolution 3
> was that Rev wasn't so tightly associated with the Mac. The more units that
> sell, the better funded all Revolution development is.
>
>    
It really doesn't do RunRev's claim to be "cross-platform" much good to be
tightly associated with any particular operating system . . .

This is why I believe that a spot more work on the Linux version would also
send a useful message :)