At 5:50 PM +0300 6/14/01, Pekka Buttler wrote:
>I know. I've withnessed the following !free! updates myself:
>4.04
>5.01
>6.01
>6.02
>(D6 projector patch)
>7.02
>
>What greatly annoys me, is that D7.02 did not fix even half of the known
>problems, and included support for new media types, making it an features
>pack, not an upgrade.
d702 was an Update that included some minor feature work (mp3, qt4).
>The bug-ridden D8 did not get an upgrade, and having
>heard the tremendous amount of work macr-engineering put into the 3D side of
>D8.5 I can hardly believe You could even want to buy an upgrade for the
>fixes.
I'm disturbed to find Director 8.0 characterized as 'bug-ridden'.
Director 8 was focused on quality, ease-of-use and stability.
I feel it achieved these goals well.
New features always involve the risk of introducing new bugs (such as
the PI-redraw issue that was addressed in d8.5).
The fact that the Director team detailed the bugs fixed in d8.5 does
not mean that d8 was buggy. It means that the team was forthcoming
and communicative.
>But let me point out to you, the only reason macr has not released a FREE
>D8.01 patch is that they want people who are most molested by D8.00's bugs
>to go out and buy that upgrade.
"Molested"?
What bugs addressed by d8.5 rate this description?
>Why can I say this? Well, if the list of
>fixes made into D8.5 are true, and I expect they are, that means that the
>most workintensive part (fixing bugs) of creating the free
>upgrade/patch(8.01) has been done. My logic says Text and Font bugs do not
>need support from a totally new 3D object engine, meaning the bugfixes could
>be shipped by themselves...
More false logic -
Updates to Text (specifically the Text Xtra) are not independent of
3D since Director 8.5 now has 3D text capabilities.
-Buzz
ex-Director Quality Architect
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