Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks Panos you are awesome… appreciate the responsiveness. @ Richard. OK, downloading now.. I'm in. moving dev in 9 DP9. BR On 9/22/17, 2:30 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of panagiotis merakos via use-livecode"

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-22 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hi all, The LC 9.0 DP-9 build, released today, has all the fixes of LC 8.1.x and 8.2.x. Best, Panos -- On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:03 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > DP9 should have the fixes from the 8 branch. Essentially any bug fix on > the 8.1

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-21 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
DP9 should have the fixes from the 8 branch. Essentially any bug fix on the 8.1 branch will get merged into the 8.2 branch. Any bug fixes from 8.1 or 8.2 will get merged into the 9.0 branch. In GitHub, there have been a bunch of these type of merges recently. If you are up to compiling the

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I'm naïve about how these branches work. Probably need a firmware update in my brain on this whole "future" versions thing. I had to "regress' to 8.1.7 RC1 because 8.2 DP 1 because the IDE melted down pretty rapidly. You wrote: " When v9 goes final v8 will no longer be maintained" Yes, of

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-21 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > 1) using 9. that old doesn’t' work for us.. We have got too much > vested in 8.* that works well, can't risk it. When v9 goes final v8 will no longer be maintained. Given the changes we can expect in OSes, esp. mobile, not keeping current will eventually

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
all mute 1) using 9. that old doesn’t' work for us.. We have got too much vested in 8.* that works well, can't risk it. 2) 45 minutes into using 8.2.0 DP1 I had so many issues and problems that I was force to abandon that too. Simple things like setting Select Grouped to true and then

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-20 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 09/20/2017 01:09 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: I understand it's not a problem to install several different version and I have just downloaded both 8.2 DP1 and 9.0.0DP 8 Um... see below. but before diving in… would like to hear from anyone here…

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Perhaps this answers the question. Looking at the download table/release notes. 9.0.0 DP 8 is 3 months behind… last updated July 13. Doesn't this mean all the fixes to bugs in 8.2 DP1 are still bugs in 9.0.0 DP8 ? BR Wrote: So what about 9.0.0 DP8 are you happy with this? Anything you