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 --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support List-related queries to iyonix-support-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx