Hello Ian, Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 7:24:37 AM, you wrote:
IAW> RITLabs don't want to describe releases as BETA because they are not IAW> betas. They describe them as ALPHA yet the list footer added keeps IAW> saying An ALPHA version is a crude attempt at fixing bugs or adding new features. It will be tested thoroughly in-house, to see whether it fixes the issues addressed. Once the in-house testing has been completed successfully and the developers believe that everything works fine, a BETA version is released to external testers. The reason is that everybody uses a software differently, and even though the ALPHA testing concluded that all is fixed, BETA testers will invariably find things that haven't been fixed. Not so at Ritlabs. ALPHA versions (i.e. versions that have not been thoroughly tested in-house) are released to external BETA testers. Personally, I am not confident that filters for POP accounts work as reliably in v5 as they do in v4, but it isn't even adressed in BETA testing any more. I wouldn't dare trying a release version. Background: Some people advised on the BETA list that there are intermittent problems with filters. Nobody at Ritlabs cared. I have over 100 filters with several conditions each, sorting into well over 100 folders across several accounts, so this is a core issue for me. The very reason I bought TheBat! back in 1999 and kept contributing to the BETA list and kept upgrading was the superior filtering system. But if that is not a priority for Ritlabs any more, I wouldn't know why I should upgrade beyond the perfectly-working v4. The filters work great in v4 (the best POP client in the world) but are not 100% reliable in v5. I cannot afford to try v5 until it is confirmed that the filters for POP accounts are 100% reliable, as they are in v4. -- Cheers, Thomas. ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
