[Coco] Software offer and Drive Pak solution

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday, September 17, 2010 09:19:24 am tonym did opine:

> Roger,
> 
>  Quite honestly, I don't know why you bother any more.
>  Every time you release or create something, something happens.
> 
>  Now you're even being criticized for the platform it runs on, which
> happens to be 85%+ of the computer market.
 
I don't see it as quite that black and white, Tony.  My objections are more 
related to the possibility of contamination by that 85% of the of the 
market as they struggle with the fact that 10 years ago, they were 97%. 
Yes, the Mac version of BSD, and Linux have taken quite a bit of the actual 
expansion of the market away from them, leaving their sales flat lined at 
about the same level while the market can be seen to be growing.

I know zip about eclipse, so I won't preach on it.

>  I would've stopped a long LONG time ago, if I were you...
>  Only so many times I'd put up with being slapped in the face, and
> turning the other cheek...
> 
>  >-----Original Message-----
>  >From: "Roger Taylor" <operator at coco3.com>
>  >Sent 9/16/2010 10:24:19 PM
>  >To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>  >Subject: Re: [Coco] Software offer and Drive Pak solution
> >
> >At 08:20 PM 9/16/2010, you wrote: >>I use Eclipse quite a bit myself,
> >just the stock software and a few >>minor plugins. I've not seen it be
> >unstable at all, and it performs >>quite well. It may be some of your
> >trouble is coming from the extras >>that have been added in your
> >environment. >> >>I find the editor to be very nice for working on
> >Java code at least. >>I would agree that configuration is a bit of a
> >nightmare.. there are >> >When I started writing my IDEs years ago,
> >one of the main reasons was >that every other IDE I used was a
> >configuration nightmare. It's >pretty cruel for an IDE author to tell
> >you that it supports this >system and that system, but in the docs you
> >are instructed to do the >work yourself to get the IDE to do common
> >tasks or to set up common >compilers or assemblers. >


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Cheers, Gene
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