Subj : Re: QWK networking?
To   : Accession
From : TALIADON
Date : Mon Jul 11 2022 11:02 am

 Ac> Yikes. Then I would assume it has long since been fixed. I don't even
 Ac> remember A31 it's been that long ago. ;)

To be fair, as Rob's main concern is Synchronet rather than Mystic, I was hoping the documentation was simply out of date. No one appears to have experienced problems with DOVE on A47, so I'll naively assume it is for now :)

 Ac> To be completely honest, no. But I've never really thought of Mystic
 Ac> having many "official releases". A47 is/was a prealpha, yet there may
 Ac> have been some kind of A47 "is as stable as can be" release right before
 Ac> A48 was started. There were MANY versions of A47 leading up to it,
 Ac> though. This is exactly how A48 has been going. The only reason there
 Ac> isn't a stable version of A48 listed on mysticbbs.com yet is because A49
 Ac> hasn't been started yet.

Considering the monumental amount of work that goes into Mystic, this approach certainly makes sense to me.

 Ac> I've been upgrading the prealphas as they're released and have had no
 Ac> issues. Sure there may be a few bugs here and there (definitely nothing
 Ac> show-stopping), but g00r00 is on top of it and usually pushes fixes as
 Ac> soon as he is able to.
 Ac> 
 Ac> http://mysticbbs.com/downloads/prealpha

Thanks Nick, this link will prove most useful.

 Ac> I think the more people that are on the latest version finding bugs and
 Ac> reporting them would be much more helpful to development than people
 Ac> reporting bugs from previous versions. And actually, I'm not sure
 Ac> previous versions are even supported. The first thing you would be asked
 Ac> to do would be to upgrade to the latest prealpha and see if the
 Ac> bug/issue is still there, since it may have already been fixed (this is
 Ac> why the whatsnew.txt is important, as well).

Yep, I ran into this when I was using A46 - g00r00 asked me to upgrade and retest before submitting a bug report. Again, considering his work load, this approach certainly makes sense to me.

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