hair-pulling frustration

[Dr. Hawkins]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com
> wrote:

> Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>
>> OK, I'll stop venting, but the amount of time I'm losing to bugs that
>> never
>> should have seen a public preview is getting increasingly frustrating.
>>
>
> I agree, which is why it benefits no one more than ourselves to test our
> work with pre-release versions.


Two problems, though:
1) One can *either* stay with 5.5, *or* use any of the new features.
Without maintaining two codebases (impossible with livecode's monolithic
file), there is no way to do both.
2) These prereleases just aren't ready for what they're called and
presented as.  I simply cannot believe that anyone who uses the debugger
would have signed off on it.

I really can't give up any significant portion of my coding time to do
livecode's work for them; these are things that are so basic that they
never should have seen a release to the public.

-- 
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
(702) 508-8462