Thank you Richard,
That is a very good point.
And thanks to Mark Schonewille for explaining how to turn off the update
message.
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Gaskin" <ambassa...@fourthworld.com>
To: <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: LC Commercial Update
larry wrote:
> It doesn't do any good to update to a new full of bugs IDE and waste
> time programming.
That's exactly why working with these interim releases is so important.
After all, if no one tested that would only guarantee bugs won't be found
until after release.
Even if you don't intend to deploy with a given release, testing the free
Community Edition helps ensure that the issues that are important to your
apps can be identified and addressed before we get to a version you would
consider upgrading to.
I used to put off testing myself, hoping others would do it for me. But
over time I've found that all that does is prevent me from taking
advantage of a new feature I need because I didn't catch a regression
issue that was critical for my app. I've learned. I don't do that
anymore.
These days I always work with the latest test build, and use any older
version only at build time, and even then only in specific and ever-fewer
cases.
The changes in the v6 series may seem minor in terms of bullet points, but
there's a lot going on under the hood, so regression potential really
needs our attention.
V7 will be even more sweeping, so even those who don't intend to use any
new build until then will want to use the free Community Edition of v6 to
help ensure we have a solid baseline to work with for v7.
V6.6.0 rc2 is available here:
<http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/>
I hope everyone will jump on this and make it the most stable build yet.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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