On 12/6/2014, 10:16 AM, Vaughn Clement wrote:
My suggestion is to LiveCode, get a finished full released version that people can use with reliability!
Try version 6.6.5, which has been very reliable for me, or 6.7 which is stable for most uses. Those are final releases. The others are indeed betas that you can ignore until they go final. They are available for testing, but if you don't want to do that you don't need to. The pre-releases are provided so that developers can know what is coming and test their apps against new features, but they are expected to have bugs.
Version 7.0 is a huge rewrite that affects the entire core of the engine. Think of it as gutting your entire house and rebuilding from the foundation on up. It implements not only unicode, but restructuring the entire engine, which touches almost every one of several million lines of code. The project is an immense undertaking and will not be bug-free for quite some time.
This restructuring is a one-time thing that will allow us to do far more than the engine can currently provide. But due to the scope of the changes, it will take time to complete. Because users needed Cocoa support for Mac, RR introduced that in version 6.7, writing it in tandem with the 7.0 overhaul. That way iOS apps could still be developed while the larger rewrite was in progress. The two share bug fixes for the features they have in common. Once 7.0 is finalized, version 6.7 will no longer be necessary.
The short answer is -- avoid the pre-release versions and stick with the last stable version if you don't want to be involved in the testing process.
-- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
