Siduhe;441293 Wrote: > But that's the whole point of making the development release (7.4 in > this case) available for testing - new features are introduced, they > break stuff (often in a major way), this gets identified, bugs are > fixed, new features are introduced and so on. > > I've been beta testing the latest development version since about 6.3 > and this has always been the case. The quality of the development > version will always vary from time to time because that's where all the > new stuff gets introduced. I have lost count of the times that > something key to me has broken in the development branch, if it's that > critical I just roll back to an earlier version, if it's not I file a > bug and wait for it to be fixed, but I always recognise I'm not running > a release version and should expect stuff to get broken. My other half, > now that's a different story, but he's very patient... > > I just don't follow the logic of saying that consumer friendliness is > key (which I very much agree with as a general statement) but that it > should apply to the 7.4 branch (or have I misunderstood what you are > saying - if so apologies)? > > Where I do think the OP and others have a good point is about the > Downloads page - the warning that used to be up on the old website about > downloading the latest development version was much clearer - it > specifically noted the warning you get in the forums that features may > be broken as new code is introduced and should be considered as alpha. > I strongly suggest this should be re-introduced in some form, as > currently someone could well download 7.4 without understanding just how > unstable it can be.
I am using 7.34 not 7.4. It has been suggested when features are broken in the released 7.3 to try 7.34 and it too has its problems. As for 7.4 I would never use it again until it is release ready and then again probably not unless Trackstat works with it. -- sxr71 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sxr71's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18773 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65677 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
