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On 02/18/2002 10:32, "Colter Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On 2/18/02 07:31, "Juergen Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Maybe a stupid question of a newbie: I had 0.29b installed and everything
>> was fine. Now I installed the new TOT from the link (see included message)
>> and the interface has changed a little bit and all my accounts are gone!? Or
>> aren't they not and I don't find them, only?
>
> I don't think it's a good idea to have someone making the TOT builds readily
> available for your average Joe User to download and run. People who don't
> understand the software development process are going to come across the
> file and think they're getting a sweet, new version of Fire with lots of new
> bells and whistles without realizing the inherent risks. I'll reiterate
> Eric's warning: The TOT builds are not guaranteed to be anything. Stable?
> No. User-friendly? No. Take up space on your hard drive? Perhaps. It's
> not release-quality software. If it was, we'd release a new version. But
> if you enjoy living on the edge and want to help beta-test Fire and improve
> it, download the source, waste clock cycles, build your own and run a cvs
> build.
I have a little free space and I like playing with pre-release software.
Don't know about Juergen though.
> Yes, the UI is changing.
And I like where it's gone so far.
> On 2/18/02 08:02, "Ryan La Riviere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I noticed that the other day. The account info is now stored in it's own
>> file now. Fire doesn't seem to know to move the info from the old version
>> to the new format...yet. Hopefully that will be implemented so user
>> accounts migrate forward when the .30a version is released.
>
> No. Account migration will not be implemented. I tried to be accommodating
> and taught Fire to migrate the location of the application support files,
> and that caused as many problems as it solved. Having to reenter your
> account information is a little less traumatic than entering all your
> buddies again. There will be a note in the ReadMe and that's it.
I can live with that. I'd like to make a suggestion. When someone runs the
new version (after having been running the older version), they should be
given a warning that they'll have to re-enter their account info (for those
that tend to not read readme's on released software...such as me; I do
however read any info I can on pre-software).
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
--
Ryan "My hometown is nowhere, my friends are everywhere." La Riviere
System Administrator; Drexel University
215.895.6010
<http://staff.tdec.drexel.edu/~edljedi/>
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