funkstar;351415 Wrote: > Well it might.... but it might not :) > > Here is a hypothetical reason why: > Feature X is added to the Controller, in doing this the developers have > to break feature Y, but it's OK as the appropriate server side code is > changed so fix it again. This all happened in 7.3. Now, you use the > firmware for 7.3 on a 7.2 server and that fix for Y obviously isn't > implemented so at best something doesn't work, at worst the Controller > becomes useless. > > It's a very simplistic example, but you get the idea. > > Oh, and 7.3 is a Beta, so you have to kind of expect these things when > using Beta versions.
Oh, I know - I'm a software engineer, so I understand (tho' haven't had to deal with firmware vs server software matching up, luckily). I was thinking if full regression tests were done on the new firmware, it could be assured that feature Y would never get broken... but I know that's not realistic. Thanks for the explanation tho'! - Tim -- tbessie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tbessie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8521 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53937 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
