How to use stacks from LC 5.5.3 with LC 4.5.3?

[Richmond]

On 11/16/2012 11:40 PM, Inselfan wrote:
> Hola Thierry,
>
> I "upgraded" from 4.5.3 tom 5.5.3. about 2 weeks ago and didn't have time to
> find and include new features. It seems, that I bought for much too much
> money a buggy product, cause many stacks/Cards are not working as they did
> before. For me it seems, that newer RR/LC Versions include more faults than
> the one before. Going back to (the still buggy) 4.5.3 but there I know what
> works/doesn't. I think, this was the last time RR got my money :(
>
> same to you as you wrote "ein schönes Wochenende "
>
> Horst
>
>

This is very worrying.

I have been bumbling along with RR/LC 4.5 for a fair old time and have been
scraping around wondering whether I can find the money for an upgrade -
and I could, with difficulty, but IFF I could see a whole slew of 
advantages.

Oddly enough, I always thought that one of the main aims in a SDLC was 
to iron out
any existing bugs BEFORE releasing the next serious upgrade.

Any of you who are following my 'Devawriter Pro' will know that 
development is
very slow indeed, for several reasons:

1. It has to take second place to my running an EFL school.

2. I spend donkey's ages trawling through the thing trying to locate 
bugs and
remove and/or work round them, before I get to the next upgrade. Having now
sold some copies of the program I really cannot afford to have negative 
messages about
its functionality floating around in cyberspace (or anywhere else, come 
to think of things).

Horst's posting seems to be one in a fairly long line of 'moans' (and 
some of them
are more howls than moans) that have been appearing with increasing 
frequency since 4.5.

Of course, one excuse that might be forthcoming is that RunTime 
Revolution have expanded their
product to be capable of producing standalones for a far greater number 
of platforms than
they were offering at 4.5.

Richmond 'Cassandra' Mathewson posted something a while back about
how he felt RunRev were at risk of spreading themselves too thin.

At the risk of sounding swollen-headed, I do feel vindicated in that 
opinion.

This is a great sadness, as RR/LC 4.5 is a robust thing that could have 
been built on incrementally
while taking a lot of care to iron out some bugs that have been around 
for ages, to arrive at a
version "5.5.3" or whatever that did not spark off all sorts of negative 
flack.