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- From: francis@vnet.ibm.com (Tim Francis)
- Message-ID: <19920727.120237.680@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 15:02:04 EDT
- Subject: Can someone at IBM please explain why developers should develop for OS/2?
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- References: <1992Jul24.182822.24148@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Reply-To: francis@vnet.ibm.com
- Organization: IBM Canada Lab, WorkFrame/2 development
- Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
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- In article <1992Jul24.182822.24148@hellgate.utah.edu>,
- brian%jensen.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
- >
- > <Long post removed for brevity>
-
- Brian, you make several good points, and I sympathize with the trouble
- you've been having. I have posted your item internally, but have no idea
- what (or even if) the response will be.
-
- Let me address a couple of items:
- - You found a bug in the optimizer, but didn't report it.
- We here in C Set (and WorkFrame) development pride ourselves on
- quick response to customer concerns, especially when they uncover
- a bug. Compiler bugs are worked immediately, and if necessary we will
- fed-ex a fix out to you. There is a compiler CSD available already
- (came out last week), so your problem may already be fixed; failing
- that we'll get some details from you, and start work on it immediately.
- (I'll be contacting you off-line).
- - Your desire for C++ and a profiler.
- Please understand that a "new, open IBM" does imply that we should lay
- _all_ our plans on the table - this is a competitive market. You are
- asking me for specific details about a future, unannounced version of
- our product, and I just can't comment in that sort of detail.
- Trust me: * Your concerns (and wishes) are being listened to.
- * C Set/2 is a fully supported compiler, still undergoing
- development and enhancments.
- * _I_ believe in making as much information as possible
- available to you, as soon as possible. The decision to
- develop or not develop, announce or not announce, any given
- product, or component of that product, is very carefully
- thought out. As soon as I _can_, I _will_ tell you.
- - You say that we should have made available, from day 1, a development
- environment "WITH ALL THE PROGRAMMING DOCS (at least on-line), and
- the hard copies of docs AT COST."
- Correct me if I've misunderstood you, but the programming docs are
- provided (on-line) with the toolkit (part of the WorkSet). Look in
- your toolkit folder, under "Toolkit information". -tim
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