[Coco] DriveWire frustration

[Steve]

Why not have the server end of the software check to see if its the 
latest version and it also verifies that the client is the right version 
too.
After all, that's how most software system work these days.

On 1/25/2014 10:10 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:04 PM,  <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> About once a week I get a bug report from an outdated version of
>>> DriveWire, almost always reporting one of the same two bugs long ago
>>> fixed.  Most submitters don't include their email address so I don't
>>> have any way to contact them other (hopefully, maybe) this list.
>>>
>> Anybody who send you an emai without a valid return address
>> should not be taken seriously and should be just deleted
>> without comment.
>>
> The users aren't emailing me, they are using the built in "Submit a
> bug report" tool that pops up when DriveWire goes off the rails.
> Including an email address is an option on that form, but not
> required.  I'd rather know about bugs whenever possible, even when
> folks prefer to be anonymous.  It's really only in the case of "I
> already fixed that, but I can't tell you" that is frustrating.
>
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