RB 5.0

[Barney]

I have to agree with Keith,

I have upgraded and paid for 5.0 but as yet it is unusable for my
project. In classic 9.x it seems to need over 120 MB RAM just to run the
project in the IDE and takes about 5 minutes to complete this. Unfortunately
though it still hasn't actually been able to launch my project for some
reason ?

After a few hours mucking around I've abandoned it and continued with 4.5 (
actually I find 4.0 to be the most stable version of all and tend to use
this the most. )

Non of us would like to see the company fold though, I'm quite happy paying
for upgrades, here's hoping they come through with the goods at some stage.

Especially reduce compiling time back to a few seconds. !!

Barney




>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> Has anyone had any experience (troubles)
>> with Real Basic 5 ?  I am thinking of
>> upgrading.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Art
> 
> RB 5.0 is not any where near ready for prime time for non trivial projects.
> Out of my 3 major RB/V4RB projects, 2 will not even run and the 3rd has
> major 'issues'. With the new compiler, it's taken hours just to get the code
> ready to compile. And then you discover that run and compile times take 5-10
> minutes for complex projects. For all intents and purposes 5.0 is an early
> beta and simply unusable for serious developers.
> 
> Which is a shame because there's lots of very useful new technology in
> version 5. I fear it's going to lose some steam because of the poor
> reputation of 5.0
> 
> I'm sure RS has reasons for releasing 5.0, but so far it's all been
> speculation. I've found this incredible. At least REAL has said they are
> aware of the problems and are hard at work at 5.1 -- they've said 5.1 will
> be the real deal.
> 
> One school of thought is to upgrade now anyway to show support for version
> 5's potential. But since they've not provided an explanation to the user
> community for 5.0's release, I've decided not to reward them 'hoping for the
> best'. Been there, done that with several problems in 4.5... Once they were
> on to 5.0, nothing was done to fix existing issues with the current release
> I had paid for. 
> 
> So with 5, I'll wait until I can purchase an upgrade I can actually use.
> 
> Keith DeLong
> 
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