Hi Frank, Fair point you make. I believe that an application roll-back falls more in the realm of development/testing environment rather than in a stable public release.
And yes, I know that Cedric is one of your beta testers, and I understand a happy one. Mario Frank Pyefinch wrote: > Mario, > > FYI, I should point out that Cedric is a Best Practice beta tester who uses > beta builds live in his everyday practice, consequently he is likely to > occasionally need to roll back a build. Although this feature is not > disabled in the general release version of the program, I am not aware that > it has ever been needed by any non beta tester. > > Frank Pyefinch > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Mario Ruiz > Sent: Tuesday, 3 July 2007 8:41 PM > To: General Practice Computing Group Talk > Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Wish list- Medical Software > > Marvelous?, > > Why would anyone code a "Downgrade" in an application? > > It speak tons of the Unit/Apps Testing process quality in the first place, > and then leave it to the user to clean up the mess. Is that marvelous? > > Is one thing to roll-back data updates (ie rdbms), but a totally different > thing to roll-back an application upgrade. if testing is not complete, one > never releases the upgrade it in the first place. > > I'm not a purist but to me that really sucks. > > mario > > > > Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: >> That is what happens to BP users too. Further in the unlikely event >> that a program update has a bad bug that was missed, with a double >> click we go back to the previous edition - thus no down time, trying >> to uninstall the new program & then installing the old one, crossing > fingers etc. Marvelous. >> Cedric >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
