RE: Lack of software abstractions

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Chris, as always, thanks for your kind support and guidance.
 
Just a question - I really would like to get the hang of the project builder.  
So far I have tried building the sample application twice and was unsuccessful. 
 Both times, I'm sure, the problem was the bug that you mentioned.  Is the bug 
corrected now?  Show I try the lab again?
 
Regards,
Joe

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        From: general-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Chris Burke 
        Sent: Sat 27/01/2007 3:58 PM 
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        Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Lack of software abstractions
        
        

        Joe Tibollo wrote:
        > My apologies Chris, I didn't realize I was complaining.
        > 
        > Just for the record, I have no complaints.  I was only trying to join 
the conversation started by Bjorn and I happenend to mention a few areas of 
interest to me...
        
        Joe
        
        Thanks.
        
        I think the original question was of the form "I have problem X and the
        solution is Y". Sometimes, the proper response is "problem X is solved
        by doing Z", where Y and Z are quite different. This just seems to me to
        be the core of the workspace/script issue, and I responded accordingly.
        
        But you should know that we take the issues that were discussed
        seriously. For example, a lot of work has been done recently on
        packaging and distributing addons (user contributions) and the base
        library. A few months ago, getting any addons or library updates was a
        tedious process, for both developer and end user. Now, the whole process
        is largely automated. You can access your addon in Project Manager, make
        changes, click a button in the new SVN dialog in PM to commit, the addon
        is built automatically on the server, and is immediately available to
        the end user.
        
        In general, PM and its updates/replacements etc, is an important part of
        the IDE. There are lots of improvements we can make, in particular to
        make building a simple application completely trivial - an issue that
        you raised earlier, and which I believe is your main concern.
        
        Chris
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