Kevin Fairhurst said,
> On 15 Jun 2000 13:33:36 +0100, Neil Bothwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> But the CD got you up and running. That's the most important point, to
>> get a working setup, not the latest setup.
> True. But surely no-one is going to reinstall everything and then make do
> with the older versions of the software. they're gonna go and get the
> updates again anyway .....
So let them. Having a fully working setup makes that miuch easier. Of
course we'll continue to put updates on the CD as they are released, but
the point of this exercise is to provide a single CD containing a fully
working NC3 setup (apart from the netconnect.library for obvious
reasons).
>> See the above point. The problem is that the NC3 CD doesn't give you a
>> working setup, because two of the programs are broken. The 3.1 version
>> will have working versions of everything, and they will be release
>> versions not pre-releases. It will never be fully up to date, because
>> Olli will probably release an update between pressing and publication.
> True, but say in 6 months time if (or when ;) my HD goes again, I'm gonna
> install everything from the CD (or a backup, heaven forbid!) and then get
> the latest updates without even running the versions from NC3.1 ....
Sure, you've always been able to do that. But people want a working
complete NC3 setup.
Neil
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