On 7/25/05, Gleason Pace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > of beta tests. From the comments that I am seeing from testers - for > > example, "With broken RegEx? No, thank you." - it does not seem to > > me that we are very close to getting an acceptable, stable release. > > .30 had big problems and needs to be replaced. We are not looking for > a perfect release but a good enough one to replace one that was not > good enough.
Gleason, that is - and was - also my point. And we thought that we were close to that achievement with 3.5.36. Then we got the 3.51 MSI and were off on another round of beta testing that has continued now up to 3.51.10... and still I hear people saying that there are showstoppers. Okay, I am not the best judge of this, but I suspect that for many the problem with RegEx could be every bit as annoying as the absence of BayesIt (in 3.5.30). But I don't know that - especially as I prefer to use 3.5.36 (which is adequate for my purpose) and will not - cannot afford to - test any of the 3.51 series until I feel comfortable that it is not going to distort the content of my email messages. > Sometime people don't have an idea of relative difficulty (or time > required) of fixing one thing or another, I think. Regex is not a > simple fix. I see lots of holes in the customizable interface. You > can put redo on a toolbar, but it doesn't do anything. You can put > "Inset an Image" on a toolbar but it won't even appear. These are > functions that are not available in the default toolbars. They seem > to me to be placeholders for new functions when they become available. Again, Gleason, you seem to be saying exactly the same thing as I am saying. > But release of the next TB shouldn't be held back because of that. Agreed. Again, the same thing as I was saying. But what do you do about the problem with RegEx (for example)? Just ignore it? > > My suggestion remains the same (as mentioned in the "3.51, > > Communications, and Ethics" thread): Drop back to 3.5.36 and package > > something from there - before you started trying to resolve some > > additional charset issues - for distribution as your 3.51 release. > > Once you have something on your Web site that non-beta-testers can > > download, you can pick up again with this 3.51.xx series of beta > > tests. > > I disagree. The past few betas have been much, much better in general > use. For the first time in months, I can say that I am delighted to > be able to use TB as my full time email client. My suggestion is to > get 3.51.10 out there. A lot of people will be gratified. Yes, but people might also be annoyed by the new problems that have been introduced. Why not give them a workable version of the 3.5.xx series that they can fall back to if they don't like 3.51.10? Not every TB user is a beta tester. -- jaywalker Windows XP Pro SP2 and The Bat! Pro (No OTFE) 3.5.36 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
