Wednesday, August 22, 2007, 1:45:29 PM, you wrote: *snip*
> Paul, he may not have understood that there will probably be no more > major add-ins or fixes in this version before it becomes version 4. I > think he does now. Indeed. But quite honestly, I really don't know what the furor is about. I don't see _any_ email where I've actually _asked_ for or _demanded_ something. All I've been doing is pointing out what I perceive to be inconsistencies. Having used various email software over the years and being a developer, this sort of thing sticks out - at least to me - like a sore thumb. I am on several dev programs for various industry companies such a nVidia, ATI/AMD, Microsoft etc. So this sort of thing is par for the course. You don't incite change. You influence change. BIG difference. Right now, I'm evaluating VS2008, I can't begin to tell you just much stuff in that version, was promised and/or overlooked in VS2005. Some, in fact many - many - changes in VS2005, came about as a result of the open developer Beta. Nobody yelled at me and several devs, for telling them - REPEATEDLY - that the darn feacp.dll usage in VS2005 was a resource hog and near brings the system to halt when versioning PCH. Did they listen? No. The result is that its the #1 complaint every dev that I know, has with VS2005. The fix? Delete or rename the file. When we complained incessantly that we really needed the ability to have more than one source control module, did they listen? No. The end result, you either use one, or create a batch file that changes the registry value that VS2005 looks for when determining which SCM to use. So, for us who use more than one (for reasons I'm not even going to get int) such as Code Co-Op and Subversion, we have no choice but to use a hack because MS won't budge. Lets not get into the fact that you can have as many plugins as you want. But when it comes to SCM, you can only have one. So, for TB!, I wasn't asking for anything to be changed and/or implemented one way or another. I'm not that arrogant to assume that after only a few days of using the Bat! that I'm going to be that influential. The bottom line is that over the years, I've used various email programs and switched. If I do switch from the Bat!, I'll do what I always do when I switch: tell everyone _not_ to use it, and give the reasons why and my _personal_ experiences with it. To me, $35 is nothing. I can't even fill up my vehicle's gas tank on that. So moving on - at some point - if the Bat!'s issues prove to be overwhelming in the long run, is meaningless to me. As long as I can convert my email to whatever target email program I go to, I'm fine. -- cheers, Indie_Dev ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.99.21 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
