The status of 6.5.1

[Roger Eller]

I agree with you on most of that, but there are enough goodness in 6.5.1
that I use often, that I am glad not to be waiting for it in a future
killer IDE.

Too fast and furious, indeed.  There's not enough time to test every
pre-existing feature.  There needs to be an automated monkey machine to run
each new version through.

~Roger
On Jan 18, 2014 8:40 AM, "Richmond" <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Recently several problems have come to light with LC 6.5.1;
> in fact quite a long time after 6.5.1 was supposed to be a completed
> thing; and
> one of those things (mouseColor) is "a step backwards".
>
> Now the question that has to be asked about any release of Livecode in
> light of this is
> all a bit embarrassing, especially for RunRev.
>
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>
> Before I go any further I should like to point out that I really don't
> have any particular axe
> to grind as I am currently developing with LC 4.5, which serves all my
> needs just now.
>
> However, come the day when I fell that an upgrade is both highly desirable
> and/or unavoidable
> (read the word "Unicode" in here somewhere) and I have the money to pay
> for it, my axe will
> need grinding.
>
> ------------------------
>
> How far should we ever trust what RunRev assures us is a "done deal" when
> it comes to a version release?
>
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>
> In the past I have said, in one way or another, "too fast, too furious",
> and it seems pretty clear that that is
> the case again.
>
> So, instead of a mad scramble to get out a version 7, a period of
> retrenchment would seem called through, with a far longer
> period of beta-testing, and a more rigorous one at that.
>
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>
> Looking at RunRev's post fund-raiser history I see an attempt to belt out
> as many of the funding goals as quickly as possible;
> and that, in one respect is admirable, especially with the feeling that
> there might be a lot of "I want what I funded RIGHT NOW" types
> slavering at the door.
>
> In another respect it is beginning to produce an uncomfortable feeling
> that ALL releases since 5.5.5 might be of beta quality.
>
> Now as RunRev already have their mitts of the crowd-sourced money they
> don't really have to run hell for leather;
> I wonder how I, for one, would go about telling RunRev that as they hadn't
> reached all their goals licketty-split they
> had to reimburse my money: that is, quite obviously ridiculous; and as I,
> for all my acidulated comments, am a
> "true believer" in Livecode and the capabilities of RunRev, I would far
> rather wait for the "killer IDE" than a succession
> of slightly botched jobs.
>
> I hope that the folk at RunRev realise this posting is NOT meant as a
> 'rubbish job', but a bit of friendly advice, which I have
> a feeling that quite a few others on this Use-List might be feeling, but,
> for various reasons, might not want to state quite so
> baldly as I have.
>
> Richmond Mathewson.
>
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