On 2012-03-12 12:34, CE WOOD wrote: > We not live so long. They have told us they would have to totally > rewrite the whole program, which isn't going to happen in my lifetime, > at least. > > CE
I'll not only agree with that, but I'll go even further. I no longer expect that Legacy will ever be rewritten. The perfect time to have done that would have been before either Legacy 6 or Legacy 7 were released. Both of those have been so buggy that it is obvious that the code base has become so haphazard that they can no longer maintain it even for relatively simple changes. For every bug fixed they seem to create at least one additional totally unrelated bug. It's a losing battle for users, who have to dread every single update for fear that it will make some previously-working-perfectly part of the program totally unusable for them. Even though I purchased Legacy 7 when it was released (based on their statement that they learned from Legacy 6), I'm still using Legacy 6 because they don't keep breaking it and I have the security of knowing that all the bugs left in it are the only bugs I have to worry about. Both the web-page output and the charting output were released in extremely primitive form and then immediately abandoned that way. They both need massive updating to make them far more flexible and usable. Since that has not happened in all the years that followed their introduction, I find it absurd to think that they will ever update the entire program. The fact that Legacy still uses programming standards that Microsoft abandoned with Windows 95 about 17 years ago shows that the programmers at Millennia are unwilling to adapt to the technology of the current century. I could be wrong, and I would love it if that is the case, but there is no evidence that would give me any hope at all. Bob Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
