Bugs in 8.0.0 RC1 and trying to convince a colleague that LC is *not* flaky

[RM]

Well, I'm not going to show anything like 8.0.0 to "Steve": I'll either 
show him the latest of the 7 series
or wait until about 8.1.

As far as I can see "8" is so radically different to "7" that expecting 
8.0.0 to be stable is extremely unwise.

There are 2 schools of thought:

1. Too much too quickly.

2. Patience and a lot of community effort in find bugs will be well 
rewarded.

I'm at about 1.8.

However, I talk to my teddy bear (Henry), and not to my imaginary fried 
(Steve).

Richmond.


On 14.04.2016 01:18, RunRevPlanet wrote:
> I know these are not show stoppers, but I suspect that bugs 15963 and 15964 will
> both be present in the final 8.0.0 build, whenever that may be.
>
> I understand that everyone has their favourite problem that needs fixing. And I
> understand that the LiveCode team has worked, and is working very hard, but I
> have a problem named Steve.
>
> Steve, (a programming colleague) to whom I sing the praises of LiveCode to,
> knows of these bugs. Unfortunately, I expect that when I ask him to give
> LiveCode another try, when version 8.0.X has a "stable" release, the following
> will happen.
>
> He is going to download it. Open the script editor and search for some text that
> doesn't exist and turn to me with a big grin and say, "Ha! This issue still
> exists. You want me to have confidence in a tool when a command in the IDE can
> be so easily broken?"
>
> I love LiveCode and can live with an irritation like this. (And if you are
> thinking, why are you searching for text that doesn't exist, it is quite easy to
> accidentally do when refactoring code with many Script Editor tabs open.)
>
> But for Steve, it makes him think that LiveCode is flaky.
>
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> Scott McDonald
> "Components, Controls, Tools and Resources for LiveCode"
> www.runrevplanet.com
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