Peter Taylor wrote: [snip]>
Yes, if you can get them to acknowledge it. Unlike the users, I don't think they as developers use the program for long enough periods to generate an appreciable accumulation of temp files.
Sometimes I get the impression they don't use it longer than to make sure the most recent module they've programmed works. I'm sure that's not the case, but with old bugs cropping up again in upgrades after having been squashed in previous update patches, and with the new bugs that it seems only real-world users can uncover, I think that perhaps they should each have to enter a multi-movement work, alternating between choral with lyrics, pop/jazz with chord symbols, and strictly instrumental music, once they feel they have some new aspect programmed properly.
Will it cost more? Certainly. But with $930,000 (or whatever it was) in profit for the last quarter, admittedly earned on the backs of Finale upgraders, the company should darned well be willing to spend a bit of that on increasing the development team so that the end-users aren't the ultimate beta-testers.
I do need to clarify -- I don't think that any of these bugs which have slipped through, or the inability of the program to delete its own temp files (we really shouldn't ever find any of them unless we open up Windows Explorer while Finale is running) are the fault of the programmers, all of whom I feel are really good at what they do. It's that they're not allowed to do what they know they need to do, simply because the company isn't giving them enough development time or resources.
My gripe is with the corporate culture as it seems to appear in public, not with the programmers themselves.
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