Re: New Release?

date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:06:09 -0600
from: Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] New Release?

I as long as CODE still exists.. I won't be begging for an upgrade.

Yes, CODE exists as long as you don't upgrade to Vista.  It's not 
supported there and there is *no* plan to support it in the future.

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date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:22:42 -0500
from: Dave Shaw <daveshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] New Release?

If you look at the announcement letter or the planning statement for
CODE, you'll see that it's been 'deprecated' - it won't be changed 
to support any new releases of OS/400, and it won't be included in 
future versions of WDSCi.  Either the product planners are clueless 
about how we use this product, they think they have us over a barrel
and want to milk us, or there's some underlying technical issue that
they haven't fixed yet and aren't telling us about.

I don't know for certain, but I *think* it's a Vista support issue.  See 
the following from the archives: 

http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l/200702/msg00176.html

and

http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l/200702/msg00179.html
*If* I'm right, that would probably indicate where IBM is willing to 
invest development dollars.  CODE being 'old' technology would take some 
work to move to Vista.  WDSC is based on Eclipse which IBM doesn't have to 
do everything to move to Vista.  Hence, it gets carried forward.

Don't get me wrong.  This really bugs me, but at it always helps me when I 
try to see some reason for something I don't like.  Of course this still 
gives *no* explanation as to why the new screen designer is only available 
in the advanced edition.