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From: Peter Vincent <peter@vincefam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Versions to be used [was Re: Welcome and some questions...]
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:45:05 GMT
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In message <9d6de7b147%d@da.fydd.org> Dafydd Tomos wrote:
> "Carol Carpenter" <carol@barnet.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > If any of these are not the latest - please let me know
> > (yes I know theres a newsbase 0.59c - I'll do that
> > shortly).
>
> I think you should use versions that are known to have no
> problems, even if they are slightly older. 0.59c does have a
> few small problems. It's best not to get into the situation
> like in the previous Acornet where the version of Newsbase
> included had the bug where you couldn't lock articles.
>
> It's ok for those of us who continually check for upgrades,
> and are on support/development lists, but I've seen lots of
> questions in newsgroups from people who've downloaded
> Acornet and 'come across' particular (not trivial) bugs that
> might have been fixed days after that version of Acornet was
> released.
Whatever version of these apps you use, there may be [or even are likely to
be? :-)] some bugs, as freeware authors don't have the resources to write
and run a complete user acceptance test routine to check out all possible
combinations of circumstances. Even commercial apps don't seem to manage
bug-free releases to judge by the postings in c.s.a.n.!
I'm not sure what the "few small problems" in Newsbase 0.59c are (I haven't
installed it yet, as it was only released at the end of last week), but
0.59b has a significant bug, in that you can't rebuild the Master ID index.
I understand that this is fixed in 0.59c.
[snip]
--
Peter Vincent