Well, I've been running Slim for a good long while, since just after the Squeezebox2 shipped.
The feature set in the code is great. The testing/QA is *abysmal*. I have NOT ONCE been able to upgrade smoothly from one release to the next. Not ONCE. Something ALWAYS breaks. And it's not like I'm running a wildly unusual system... a mixture of FLACs, CUE/FLACs, and MP3s, running two Squeezeboxen. I use the XMRadio and AlienBBC plugins. This installation has been an endless hassle to try to upgrade. This most recent time, 6.3.0 won't even START on a Debian system, because they screwed up the library paths. It's fixable (I put a bandaid in another post), but then even when it DOES run, all the radio links are now gone. EVERY release is like that. It doesn't look like even the most rudimentary testing is done. 6.2.2 was nicely stable for me, so I have fallen back to that, and I will likely stay there until I have some indication that the QA processes are improving. As I said in my other post, I'd be willing to run potential releases through an installation and basic testing on Debian. As is, the software for the Squeezebox has gotten so bad that I no longer recommend it to most people. The releases are incredibly sloppy. It's not improving, it's getting worse... which is often the sign of a code base that has gotten too complex for the current development model to handle. -- Malor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Malor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1961 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25538 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
