Re: Congrats to the Breve Team!

I second that emotion - I tell everyone I know about breve.
On Sunday, October 17, 2004, at 09:24  PM, edmund ronald wrote:

> Hi -
>
>  I downloaded Breve today, and was amazed at the quality of your work:
>  -The software installed seamlessly under Mac OS X.
> - It ran the demos with no problems (although it crashed on me once)
> - I downloaded the CLI version, and by following the instructions was
> able to run it.
> - I was able to create a HelloWorld example myself and run it in both
> the integrated versino and the CLI .
>
> In a previous life I was a software reviewer for various journals,
> including the then french edition of MacUser. I learnt that most users
> abandon software that crashes at install or first use. Indeed the
> ability of software to survive the first flight by a new user is an
> important review criterion, which Breve meets. Much of the other
> software I have seen, in particular open source, comes with
> complicated installation procedures and crashes and burns at the first
> launch attempt.
>
> If there is one suggestion I might offer at this point, it would be to
> make "jumbo packs" that contain the executables, AND the Breve white
> paper AND documentation AND the source code for the first time user.
> This makes the download longer, but as a user you are then sure that
> the source code, and docs and examples you have on disk all play
> together. Finding the right pieces, once your installation has gone a
> bit out of date can be a pain. My experience as a scientist is that I
> have often kept using an out of date version, because once you start
> doing an experiment you don't want to tamper with the frameworks. At
> which point you can need source to that old version etc etc.
>
> Thank you for making such a powerful and well maintained piece of
> software generally available!
>
>
> Edmund
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