[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Running SWT Outside Eclipse Instructions

["Robert B" <oh1226@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Your programs
>> should run smoothly all the time on all versions. If you don't do that, 
>> your managers
>> and users won't  be happy. Making them work is always developers' 
>> responsibility.
> You are naive if you think this is possible.

If you are developing commercial s/w, if your s/w depends on versions,
very few will be interested in investing on your s/w. Once they invest,
they should be able to use them for many many years without needing
to obtain new copies. This is especially true, if your users are non-IT
people. I've been doing this since Java AWT 1.0.

Also remember that not long ago before Sun changed JNI, the only way
to install SWT was to install inside JRE. Then Eclipse community was
lobbying Sun to include SWT inside!

R.

> set minimum requirements for your application.  If you write to version 
> 1.0 of a particular API, you need to have version 1.0 available.  If a 
> different application installs version 0.9 in lib/ext, your application 
> will not work.