On Jan 18, 2017, at 2:04 AM, Paul Lovejoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > We’ve been spending quite a bit of time preparing our 4D databases to move > from v12 to v15. We originally had planned to transit via v13 but since we’re > 100% Mac, we saw that numerous problems with recent Mac OS X versions are > causing severe compatibility issues, ie crashes. So we’re skipping v13 and > v14 to move directly to v15, although we did test heavily on v13 also. > > Recently I’ve seen a lot of activity surrounding v16 and one of my colleagues > suggested skipping straight to v16. We have about 200 client connections and > the databases are mission critical. The largest is about 100gb. My 30 years > of experience with 4D tell me NOT to jump straight to v16. Does anyone have > any reason to believe it’s worth taking the leap? Is v16 rock solid?
Even v15.3 is not rock-solid on Macs, although it is better than earlier v15 releases. The open file dialog still crashes sometimes (i.e. when choosing a saved quick report or a folder). The open file dialog crashing may actually be resolved in V16, since it appears to be related to incomplete decarbonization, and the R releases (and thus V16) have continued farther down that path. The 4D Internet Commands plugin is also unreliable, so if you use that much you’ll want to be considering a replacement. The only thing you can do is test, and accept that unless you can test with production-level workloads you will likely still experience some problems only after releasing into production regardless of which version you choose. Jim Crate ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
