frequent crashes under 7.0.1-RC3

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sun Dec 14 14:16:40 EST 2014


On 14/12/14 18:30, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Well, if you must work with a release candidate I honestly don't understand
>> why you are surprised there are problems.
>>
> Because "release candidate" means "more than beta; we think it's good to
> go, but need to confirm"--whereas livecode "release candidates" are
> mid-alpha to early beta?
>
> I'm giving serious thought to going back to 5.5; the only thing I *need*
> from 7 is the scaling to soom in/out of windows, and the only other feature
> I'm using is pass by reference in some cases.
>
> If I do roll back, though, it's not going to be to wait for 7, but to get
> by until I figure out how to transfer my effort to another platform
> entirely.

"wait for 7" sounds odd as we, supposedly, have "7" as a done deal already.

>
> Frankly, If I could roll back the clock two and a half years, I'd choose
> something else.  Supercard 1.5 and Hypercard 2.0, with the addition of
> database support, could have handled what I need (I can say that with
> certainty because I actually implemented essentially the same program on
> both twenty years ago, using cards in a stack as the "database").
I think your 'gripes' are because you have got onto the "constantly 
upgrading"
conveyor belt, which, in my experience causes little but grief.

My production work takes place on a 2005 G5 Macintosh running Livecode 
4.5 on Mac OS 10.5.8.

I do my "Livecode playtime" on a machine running a recent Linux version 
and all Open Source versions of LC
up to and including 7.0.1 rc3 - but I certainly would NOT transfer all 
my Pismo, Grendel and Devawriter code
to anything more than 4.5 which has served me extremely well for the 
last 5 years.

I am well aware that most people need something more contemporary than 
what I use,
but my advice would be to find something that works (e.g. LC 5.5) on a 
system that works, and
stick with it as long as possible.

If it ain't broke, don't fix, upgrade, or disturb it.

Richmond.

Richmond.




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