Richard Yates wrote:
We do not have the list of fixed issues yet, as the program is not yet
finished. That list will not be available until the program is shipping.<
Wouldn't you think that fixes would come before features in a development
cycle?
Not necessarily. Program code isn't a huge bunch of discreet routines
that never impact each other. The modules are called over and over
again by different routines, and this process introduces some new bugs
when the various modules are used in never-before-used combinations and
sequences. Sometimes previously squashed bugs reappear from such things.
The new features are often new modules which are easier to write than
the bugs are to fix.
And then there are the long-standing issues such as EPS export on the
Windows side of things. If the developers haven't been able to fix it
in the previous how many versions, what makes you think they've learned
how for this version?
No, we who use Finale intensively are not the ones that MakeMusic cares
about -- it's the new user, the casual user, the one who will buy it and
then maybe use it or not but at least it's another full-price new-user
sale, that MakeMusic cares about.
If they can satisfy us in the process, terrific. But the squashing of
bugs, especially long-standing bugs, is a lot harder than introducing
new features. And with enough new features, some users will never get
into the program deeply enough to find the bugs.
Of course, if they want to penetrate the educational market all they
have to do is to give the program free to the teachers, give those
teachers free training seminars, get them to understand the program and
buy site-licenses for their schools, then give the school students deep
discounts to capture them as Finale users.
But I guess the powers that be at MakeMusic feel it's more financially
safe to simply keep on turning Finale into Sibelius and hope somebody in
the educational world notices.
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David H. Bailey
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