Win XP / Rev 2.7

[Steve Paris]

I have had similar experiences to Dave. I have a fairly substantial 
client/server app, a student records system, using MySQL, and typically 
with 15 to 20 concurrent users on Win2K or XP (latest service packs). 
The app is launched from a read-only network volume. Rev 2.6.1 was very 
stable, both when working in the IDE (local stacks and db) and when 
deployed as a standalone on the network. That made me a little 
complacent, and I went ahead and upgraded the live app to 2.7 despite 
script editing in the IDE causing crashes (both the rev script editor 
and Constellation). Unfortunately the deployed standalone also exhibited 
stability problems, some text field related, others seemingly random 
crashes. Foolish me.

I have reverted to 2.6.1 (many thanks to Chipp for the plugin) and all 
is perfectly stable again. I am happy that many people are using 2.7 
without problems, but the experiences of a few of us on this list 
demonstrate there is an issue. Trying to come up with recipes for these 
type of crashes is extemely time consuming, especially for those that 
happen in the standalone and not the IDE. I wish I could provide more 
information, but time is not on my side.

Steve


Dave Beck wrote:

>For the record I want to say that when I installed Rev 2.7 on XP I had
>crashes many times a day as well. 
>