Newbie question: Valentina 2.5.8 & Rev 2.8.1 on OS X: where's the windows vcomponents?

[Mr. Bart Pietercil]

Hi Martin,

could it be possible that I am confusing you being vocal with being  
plain rude and agressif.

Can you imaging that most of us that are helping out on the list are  
non-native english (writers and) speakers.
Maybe it is just a cultural thing but if this response to someone that  
is trying to help you get started is your normal way of behaving on a  
list that you just subscribed to I fear that most of us will hesitate  
to respond.

Thank you for reflecting on this

Regards,

Bart Pietercil



On 20-feb-08, at 20:46, Russell Martin wrote:

> --- Ruslan Zasukhin <sunshine at public.kherson.ua> wrote:
>
>> Its nice to see that only starting to work with Valentina for Rev,
>> You already thinking about deployment step :-)
>
> The thing that got me thinking about deployment already was page 6 of
> the "Valentina 2 for Revolution Reference" pdf that I downloaded and
> was attempting to read. It points out where to look for VComponents  
> and
> how to copy them upon deployment. All I was doing was trying to read
> and follow that based on the advice of one of the pages I landed on in
> trying to navigate your confusing wiki.
>
>> Short answer is:
>>
>>    * you need Windows and V4REV_WIN install there to get
>>        windows DLLs.
>>
>> We do this on few reasons. One of them is Valentina is not small to
>> pack all
>> into single package. Second, e.
> g. Is that from Windows you in any
>> case will
>> not be able produce MAC working app with V4REV.
>
> I'm not 100% sure what you're saying there. Are you saying that it is
> impossible to producing working crossplatform applications with
> Valentina and Revolution unless you have both Valentina and Revolution
> licenses on each of the platforms you want to deploy on? And, that the
> free license you've given me will only allow me to deploy on one
> platform? If your intention in handing out free licenses was to
> increase sales, you won't win me as a customer by giving me something
> that I can't use crossplatform.
>
>> -------
>>> Also, when & where will I need the serial number that I was sent?
>>
>> It looks you did not read this simple tutorials:
>
> You're right. I never got there by following the advice in the email
> that I was sent. I'm sorry to tell you this but, your wiki suffers  
> from
> a lack of focus, sprawl, and circular linkage. I got lost in the maze
> and ended up at a page that said to download some pdfs (one about the
> kernel and the other reference mentioned above.)
>
> Again, I know you're trying to increase sales with this promotion and
> you're probably sick of questions from noobs like me. However, right  
> at
> the moment, I'm thinking more about how to remove Valentina from my
> system than how to continue to learn about it. Sincerely, I hate to
> tell you this, but, your website with its lack of focus, circular
> linkage, and poorly written documentation make learning about your
> product begin to feel more trouble than it is worth. Maybe you should
> consider getting a talented technical writer to clean things up a bit.
> I'm sure your sales would increase if getting started with your  
> product
> wasn't so daunting.
>
> Oh, and when you do a give away promotion, especially when you're
> giving away the previous version of the product, give away something
> that is truly useful. Had I received something that I could deploy
> cross platform, I might have actually used it, grown to love it and
> then purchased the upgrade. As it stands now, I will probably just
> slink off and think 'what a bunch of tight fisted jerks who don't know
> how to teach people how to use their product.' And if anyone ever asks
> me about Valentina I'll have to say, 'I tried to use it once. They had
> a free promo but they were only giving out licenses good on one
> platform. That and their hard to navigate website and crappy
> documentation kept me from ever finding out if it was worth the  
> trouble.'
>
>
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