[iyonix-support] Re: 5.18 Upgrade

  • From: Dave Higton <davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:42:57 GMT

In message <12de376c52.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <49221.86.149.241.110.1331036831.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> co.uk>
>           "Learning Partners" <lp.books@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 6 March, 2012 12:11 pm, dave higton wrote:
> >> Quoting Learning Partners <lp.books@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>
> >>> I think that next time a change this radical in the OS occurs it would
> >>> be well to accompany it with a compatibility table of KNOWN
> >>> requirements to upgrade key / core applications such as Ov Pro,
> >>> Easiwriter, Artworks, Datapower, etc etc This information is obviously
> >>> known to some developers, Martin, Andrew etc.
> 
> Actually, no, I did not know. I only found out yesterday.
> 
> >> I suspect that developers would be likely to keep their applications
> >> up to date.  I suspect that, for this reason, the incompatibility
> >> information only emerges /after/ release of the OS.
> 
> In this case, it was the other way round: The incompatibility emerged 
> more than a year ago and was subsequently fixed a year ago. Hence, 
> anyone running a recent version of OvationPro (one of the latest three 
> releases) would not have seen the problem anyway while testing 5.18.
> 
> > A very fair point, although in this instance it looks as if some problems
> > were identified through development builds. It would be helpful if these
> > could be logged and disseminated beyond the developer community on
> > release.
> 
> That is not so easy because that information is not readily available. 
> There is no mechanism that would allow the OS developers to know when 
> an application developer has fixed an issue that emerged during OS 
> development. At the end of the day, it is up to the application vendor 
> to notify customers about new versions of commercial software, or 
> alternatively, it is up to the customer to make sure he runs the 
> latest versions before doing a major OS upgrade.

And the difficulty of obtaining that information is one reason why
softloads are a good thing.

Dave
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