Re: My views on Eclipse and Apple's decision on discontinuing all WO Dev tools

Pascal Robert <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:57:53 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webobjects.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> C. New WO Developers
> In our team we have one guy that knows Eclipse inside-out and  
> defends it to some extend. Few days ago I asked him the following  
> question. Imagine a guy across the street reads about this fantastic  
> framework called WebObjects, how it makes you more productive, etc.  
> And he decides to be a WO developer. So he buys a Mac (with Leopard  
> on it), and tries to write and deploy a simple WO application with a  
> simple database of just one table. What is the chance of success?  
> After some thinking he looked at me and told me - yes, you are  
> right, the chance is close to zero.
> Do I need to go further and explain what does this mean for the  
> future of WO?

For that point, I fully agree with you.  The WO frameworks should be  
installed by default when someone install the Developer Tools.

But like Miguel (the guy who can't stand the cold :-) said, we need  
documentation, both from Apple and from the community.