On 22 Dec 2005 at 17:30, Simon Troup wrote: > >The development process at MM was obviously broken in some way for > >such a serious bug to make it into shipping code. It's one thing for > >an installer to have a problem (and that got through due to > >inadequate testing, too), it's entirely another for the data loss bug > > to have slipped through. > > About the installer problem. > > The symptom was loss of preferences if I remember. Now, most beta > testers will test in a fresh install, not in their regular account, > NOD's are full of disclaimers against data loss. Just goes to show the > testers aren't all nuts if you ask me.
I'm sure that in future at MM, there will be at least one test of every installer build on a live installation (or an installation built from an image of a live installation). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
