Stability of LC 8 DP2?

[Dar Scott]

Ah, I get it.  I think I misunderstood "development" in your first comment.  I'm obtuse at times.  

However, I still want to emulate your daring do.  I can take the conservative approach you described during the day as the mild mannered software developer, but at night, I can put on my cape and jump into trying out DPs. Of course, in my cave I can't tell night from day.  

Anyway, I have a better idea of what you are saying.  


> On Jul 4, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> Dar Scott wrote:
> 
> >> On Jul 4, 2016, at 10:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >>
> >> On the contrary, while I recommend using the most recent "Stable"
> >> build for deploying, for development I strongly recommend using
> >> the most recent build with any designation specifically so we can
> >> identify and resolve these issues ASAP.
> >
> > Can you clarify this daring and exhilarating approach to programming?
> >
> > If, in a major run, I hop to 8.1, riding the edge, I am crossing-
> > my-fingers hoping to jump to a stable 8.1 before the due date, but
> > if there is no stable 8.1 as the due date approaches, and I use your
> > deploy-on-stable approach, I need to flip back to 8.0, redoing that
> > which depended on 8.1, making quick corrections, so that by the time
> > I go through the delivery tunnel, all works and all is stable.
> 
> As a general rule I never make business plans involving anything dependent on unreleased software features.
> 
> I've tested software for Adobe, Apple, Oracle, and many others, but I don't make any deployment schedules that involve features unique to any version of any software until two conditions have been met:
> 
> 1. The final shipping version of the software exists.
> 
> 2. I've been able to reasonably verify that it'll do
>   what I need it to do.
> 
> Everything prior to those two conditions being met is effectively just testing (though I tend to get a lot of work done along the way).
> 
> I was a customer of Allegiant SuperCard for Windows, and worked with a company that invested in plans based around QuickTime's HyperCard 3 engine. Stuff happens. Sometimes that stuff is beyond anything anyone could have imagined when the project started.
> 
> So until a feature is in my hands and verified as working, for any business planning purposes it doesn't exist.
> 
> For learning and testing purposes, however, it's invaluable for helping to ensure the final version will do what I need it to do once it's ready.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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