First of all, Bob,
We appreciate your efforts, but what you suggest just won't ever
happen. Even if we expand the word "single" to be "several hundred",
the number of builds necessitated by that approach would be enormous,
and we'd all be driven absolutely out of our minds. Right now, it's
bad enough. I do agree that we should pay for features and not bug
fixes, but sometimes the difference between the two is pretty vague;
and, hopefully, that's what we ARE doing. But it is just more
convenient for all of us to get a single new package, rather than a
number of different ones of whose status we have to keep track.
My feeling is: "Keep dreaming!"
Joe Wilkins
On Jun 7, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Bob Warren wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
A lot of folks here used to cry out for free bug-fix upgrades, but
last
time Rev delivered one they complained it didn't address all of
them and left out too many feature requests. ;)
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The other day, I put forward a model under the thread "A glimpse of
the future" which was totally ignored. I must therefore presume
that in the opinion of all UR-List contributers, the suggestion is
flawed. Except that nobody had the patience to tell me why it was
flawed.
Let me make the suggestion more explicit in the hope that either
its merits will be discussed, or it will be torn to pieces:
1. RR should provide feature releases on a regular basis. We pay
for them.
2. We do not pay for bugfixes. The manufacturer is just putting
right what he has done wrong.
Feature releases are not for the purpose of fixing bugs. In fact,
they will unintentionally introduce them. But there is no such
thing as a "bug-fix" release. Bug fixes are handled between feature
releases, and here's how:
RR take reported bugs one by one and fix them. After fixing a
single bug, they test the shit out of the IDE in order to discover
the unexpected consequences. Once they are satisfied, the bugfix is
immediately made available to users, either in the form of a patch,
or in the form of an entirely new IDE for download. When a single
bugfix is available, the "Rev Online" icon at the top of the user's
IDE window dances up and down. It tells the user that a bugfix is
available for direct download in a way which is exactly parallel to
the way it is done for whole operating systems such as Ubuntu or OSX.
Too simple? Too naive? Economically unviable? You don't like the
word "single"? PLEASE TELL ME.
Bob
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