Is each release perfect and bug-free?

[DrTeeth]

There never seem to be any patches within a major upgrade, v6 and v7
spring to mind. Any release/upgrade/bug fix now seems to be a paid
upgrade.

Surely each version MUST contain bugs? Why does the developer not fix
them? I am not a power user by any means, and purchase upgrades as a
way of supporting Forte. I'm beginning to feel cheated and do not
intend to upgrade unless it is extensive in scope.
--

Cheers,

DrT

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** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

[Geoff]

On Thu, 16 May 2013 23:27:52 +0100, DrTeeth <no-e...@tardis.com>
wrote:

>There never seem to be any patches within a major upgrade, v6 and v7
>spring to mind. Any release/upgrade/bug fix now seems to be a paid
>upgrade.
>
>Surely each version MUST contain bugs? Why does the developer not fix
>them? I am not a power user by any means, and purchase upgrades as a
>way of supporting Forte. I'm beginning to feel cheated and do not
>intend to upgrade unless it is extensive in scope.

How many bugs have you found and reported?

I was an early beta tester back in the day, I found two bugs and made
one feature request. Both bugs were fixed and my feature request, the
"Open Attachment Folder" command was implemented very soon after
reporting or in the next release. I thought Fort� was being very
responsive.

Everyone must make their own choice as to whether the price of an
update is worth what they get for it.

[Jeffrey Kaplan]

Previously on alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent, DrTeeth said:

> There never seem to be any patches within a major upgrade, v6 and v7
> spring to mind. Any release/upgrade/bug fix now seems to be a paid
> upgrade.

There is no such thing as bug-free software.

> Surely each version MUST contain bugs? Why does the developer not fix
> them? I am not a power user by any means, and purchase upgrades as a

Forte does fix major issues in maintenance releases. There haven't
been any such problems in a while. Minor fixes, however, are merely
rolled into the next feature-release.

> way of supporting Forte. I'm beginning to feel cheated and do not
> intend to upgrade unless it is extensive in scope.

Like any purchase choice, that is your decision.

--
Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
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"Torg, what's wrong?" "I felt a great disturbance in the Force. As
if a significant plot line suddenly cried out in terror... and was
suddenly silenced." - Zoe and Torg, Sluggy Freelance

[DrTeeth]

On Fri, 17 May 2013 17:26:30 +0000, just as I was about to take a
herb, Jim Higgins <this_...@is.invalid> disturbed my reverie and
wrote:

>Surely there must be bugs? Why? Because you want a bug fix (along
>with free upgrades)?

I did not say I want free upgrades. I just made the point that for the
past few versions there have not been any bug fixes/maintenance
releases (call them what you will) in between paid upgrades.

>But the hard cold bottom line is that we've probably seen the last of
>any upgrades to Agent. It doesn't appear to be an actively developed
>product any longer.

That explains why support emails go unanswered ;-).

[h...@h-gee.co.uk]

Bug free???

Even a �65k car is not bug free so why should �400 software be bug free
let along a $29 one.

Hugh of Bognor

--
I used to be an Egotistical Megalomaniac - but now I'm just perfect!

Hugh Gundersen
h...@h-gee.co.uk

Bognor Regis, W.Sussex, England, UK




On Fri, 17 May 2013 02:22:16 +0000, Jeffrey Kaplan <nom...@gordol.org>
wrote: