From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-11-25T01:24:48+09:00
Subject: Re: FreeRide experience? (especially on MacOS X)

Glenn Parker wrote:
>
> Jamie Orchard-Hays wrote:
> > I'm curious about users' experiences with FreeRide, especially
> on MacOS X.
>
> I played with it for a couple of days (on WinXP).  I'm afraid that, as a
> neophyte Ruby coder, I found it frustrating.  My utterly naive Ruby
> syntax errors caused it to crash so frequently that I gave up on it and
> went back to XEmacs.  My feeling is it's not quite ready for prime-time.
>
> Part of this may have resulted from deeper bugs in the Ruby interpreter,
>   or with irb, since I've experienced a few unforgiving crashes using
> irb, as well.  This was all using ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [i386-mswin32].

If you don't mind, could you be more specific about what caused you
problems. I ask because I also run FreeRIDE on WinXP and have not had
frequent crashes that you report.

Whatever specific cases you have I would want to create bug reports and get
them fixed. This is especially important right now as we will be releasing
FreeRIDE 0.9.0 very soon and I would want any such problems to be fixed
before the release.

Also, what version of FreeRIDE were you running?

Curt

> A follow-on question:
>
> Does the current source tree for Ruby include test cases with "bad"
> code?  The idea would be to ensure that Ruby gracefully handles
> syntactic and semantic errors.
>
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