Moving a File

[Marielle Lange]

Hi Dave,

> Are you seriously telling us that you believe that the way that the  
> "rename" works is a good way to implement a "rename" function in a  
> high level programming environment aimed at novice programers?

I don't disagree with the criticisms being made. I fully agree that  
more consistent naming conventions should be adopted. I also agree  
that if a function is introduced that bears the same name as a  
function very familiar to users, then the same behavior should be  
implemented to avoid confusions.

However, what I know from my own life experience is that if you give  
as feedback to a person (or company in this context) that they are  
completely incompetent... do it again and again... and you will be  
confirmed in your belief.

They have set up a quality center as well as a Beta exercise that  
directly involves any user who wish to participate. Bill is putting a  
lot of his time and effort into this. What I heard from Revolution  
(Marcus, who I met at the last user group in Edinburgh) is that his  
work is highly valued and put to good use to try and kill bugs one by  
one.

Something that has been said from time to time is that an important  
problem they have is that the code as it is written for now hasn't  
been written in a way that allow for easy tracking and bashing of the  
bugs. Because of this, they have to go through important rewrite and  
reorganisation of the code, at engine level (well, you will have to  
ask somebody more knowledgeable than me for details). They have been  
working on this, in parallel to these partial bug fixes and XP  
release. Only a part of their team works on bug fixes while the other  
part of the team works on 2.9.

Many criticisms you made are valid. However, as far as I can tell,  
they are doing the right thing.

As I have evidence that they are doing the right thing and that the  
reports filled in the quality center are processed and acted upon, it  
wouldn't be the best use of my time to clarify on this list what I  
think of that rename function or the absence of warning in the doc on  
this list.  If you enter a report in the quality center and provide  
the link to it on this list, I will take the time to comment it... on  
the quality center. You may  have the happy surprise to discover that  
most users on this list in fact approve of the content of many of  
your comments.

Marielle