These are excellent points, and play a much larger role, in my opinion, to the problem of lack of updates by users/testers than auto update does. Well said. -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
On Nov 25, 2009, at 5:43 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 11/25/2009 12:54 AM, Thomas Eckardt/eck wrote: >> I know, that most of the V2 installations are running in production >> mode >> and that it is not possible to follow each version step. But I'm >> realy >> disappointed about this statistic. >> I'm not sure, if it is worthwhile to do further development of V2 >> in view >> of this. > > Hi Thomas, > > I understand the frustration, and I certainly hope you don't abandon > further development of ASSP, but you must understand that the > EXTREMELY > rapid pace of development and rapid release of new dev versions, often > many times in one day (this is a GOOD thing so I'm not complaining!) > probably makes a lot of people reluctant to upgrade once they have > something working. > > That said, while there are almost twice as many running older versions > than 0.5.24, there ARE 29 running newer versions. Also, not everyone > who > uses ASSP uses the griplist... > >> this is just implemented. Configure 'Notify' and 'NotifyRe' to >> watch for >> the logentry that there is a new version available and you'll get >> your >> email about that event. > > This is very good, and will help a lot going forward! > > One other thing - please don't take this the wrong way, its just my > opinion, but the slightly confusing and unconventional version > numbering > scheme ASSP uses probably doesn't help. A perfect example is the > subject > of this email - 'used V 2.0.1 versions'. How the heck can there be a > 2.0.1 RC version when there has NEVER even been a stable 2.0.0 version > released? And having additional version numbers inside parenthesis is > confusing too, although I did get used to it. > > Anyway, just something to think about... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Assp-test mailing list Assp-test@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-test
