Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 03:17:35 08/29/01
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On August 28, 2001 at 21:37:16, Robert Pawlak wrote: >Victor speaks the truth here. It was extremely difficult to beta test CA 6.X, >since many new functions were added. You test one, and then maybe a bug gets >introduced later. Pretty soon you end up trying to verify that everything works >with each new beta. This is extremely time consuming. > My opinion is that a patch should only deal with bugs and obvious, the new functions should go to the next release. >Furthermore, not every beta tester has every engine. So you have further >narrowed the number of people that are even able to test for your problem. > Is all working well for you when you use the Crafty engine that comes with CA? >I am not discounting your experience with the program. But I think that you at >least owe Convekta an opportunity to fix these things, before you increase the >tone of your posts. Because if I were a commercial concern, and the first thing >I heard about a problem was on a forum like this, I would be justifiably >mortified. > It wasn’t meant to be increased, but there could have been something hiding in there since I was pretty tired of waiting for a fix in CA5.1 that was promised in May 2000, and later postponed to June, and later … , well I don’t see it still on the site. >There has been a bug or two that I have experienced since the last build, but >overall I am overjoyed with CA 6.1, and it works 100% of the time for the >functions that I use every day. It really does a lot for comparatively little >$$$. Hopefully you are not a beta tester for finding bugs then. Odd Gunnar Malin
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