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ESTK Rant

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From: xbytor
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:09
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Each version of ESTK has been flaky or broken in someway. The UI improvements, 
while nice, do not make up for the continuing instabilities in the debugger.

<rant-mode>
The CS2 rev mostly just had limited functionality. There were other specific 
things that didn't work correctly but the memories have faded.

With the CS3 rev, the major failing was no longer recognized the "$.level = 1; 
debugger;" which totally ruined some of my standard debugging techniques.

The CS4 rev will get into death locks with PS on a fairly repeatable basis. And 
it is painfully slow when you first step into (or close) a 5KLOC+ include file. 
But they did fix the "$.level = 1; debugger;" problem after a detailed 
justification from me (and, I would assume, others).

All versions do not play well (when debugging) with external editors. A simple 
'Reload File' button would help here immensely since PS (esp CS3) can easily 
lose track of when the file was edited and by whom leading to a confirmation 
death lock.

And all versions default to a variable width font file text instead of a fixed 
width font (which has been fairly standard since Grace Hopper's days). It's only 
a problem because of the frequency with which preferences have to get reset when 
ESTK flakes out once again.

</rant-mode>

-X
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