Re: Genesys vs. Design Master

[fmlin@ccnet.com (Frank M. Lin)]

>>DM is useful, but *extremely* limited.  Genesys has the best (and most)
>>custom WYSIWYG editors, but it lacks support for any resources introduced
>>past System 5.0.4.  Foundation is probably the most flexible of the three,
>>and has the most potential, but it requires you to know a lot more about
>>resources than most beginners would know.

I'd say stay away from DM.  There was only one release of DM, and
that was it!  Foundation 1.0.2 is available as freeware and the
sources are also available.

>Larry, I don't know what happened to the Pheonix Project.  When they
>first contacted me for the Foundation sources, they had quite a laundry
>list of tasks.  I imagine that the reality of their undertaking was a
>bit much.

If you've seen the "Phoenix Tree", you would know how ambitious they
were.  But I thought they were just fantasies.  I don't think PP
ever actually produced anything...  :-\

>Genesys is dead, although I still have the 1.2.4 sources (mine - not the
>buggered-up 1.2.3 that SSSi released as 1.2.4).  I should see if I can
>get ahold of Kevin to see if those sources can be released too.

That would be quite nice to the GS world.  I guess the most useful
part would be how to add more editors.

>Unfortunately, the GS is a dead market and GS development tools are
>quite a tiny nitch in a moribund market.  Chris Haun isn't updating
>Design Master from what I remember.  Sumtimes life sucks.

Is Chris Haun still with Apple?

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