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
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> 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.