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
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 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
>>
>>
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