RunRev Script Editor and Linux

Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jul 16 04:24:09 EDT 2010


"There is no "Linux" per se. Linux is like blocks, modules that people
snap together at will. Without a known set of variables, Rev is very
likely to fail in some areas depending on which software the current
user has installed. "

Jacque, I don't think this is either true, or a useful explanation of why,
for instance, the editor crashes in my plain minimalist install of Debian on
cut and paste.  If it were true, then lots of applications that do cut and
paste, which is just about all of them, would crash.  The fact is, they do
not.  If it were true, then it would be almost impossible for virtual
desktops to work on all applications, but they do work.

Not by the way any sort of exotic way of working, commonplace for the
mainstream Linux user.  Commonplace in fact for ordinary users, once you
have showed them a few times how to use virtual desktops.

The way to look at this thing is to figure out what Rev is doing differently
from other apps.  What exactly is Rev doing with its editor, which is not a
terribly complicated sort of functionality, which makes this editor, unlike
any other, slowdown and freeze?  How exactly has Rev implemented the IDE so
that you can't put the property inspector on one desktop and the editor on
another?  How is Rev relating to the system print functionality that makes
revPrintField not work?  Where is it getting its font lists from?  Its not
the same place as every other app gets them.

Rev's problem is not that it is being installed with deep system
functionality into a complex multifarious environment, and some of this deep
functionality is understandably failing to work.  Rev's problem is that in
very simple functions, not deep at all,  it is not relating to identical and
unchanging features of the OS functionality in the same way that all the
other apps do.

As an analogy, it would be like writing your app so its installer failed to
put a starter icon on the desktop in Windows, and then saying, Oh Well, the
problem is no app store, people just install whatever they want on Windows,
so its an unpredictable environment.  Yes, it is, but that is not the
problem, the problem is how you wrote your installer to do something very
simple and access very basic functionality.

We need to stop making excuses!

Peter




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