[Coco] Colorcomputerarchive harmful behavior

[Bill Pierce]

Aaron, try searching maltedmedia archives and I think you may find your answer to that one. If I'm not mistaken, it's where I first discovered DW.

(To be clear, the colorcomputerarchive site is not doing this.  I don't
know where people are getting it)


 
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, May 26, 2014 6:59 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Colorcomputerarchive harmful behavior


On May 26, 2014 6:42 PM, "Steve" <6809er at srbsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> Think about it, Aaron should be spending his time making his software
better not dealing with user's bug that are  from running older versions.
>

Not just me, although I appreciate this.  Everbody working on CoCo stuff is
dealing with a limited supply of time.

> Almost every current software project has one source for the user code
that is maintained by the team.  If there are "mirrors" of the code, they
have a system in placed to get the new versions as they are posted.
>

Exactly... this is just being a good "internet citizen".
Unofficial/uncoordinated mirrors are discouraged or forbidden by basically
every project everywhere for reasons well covered in this thread.

> In the future, DriveWire needs to "Call Home" and verify they are the
current version.  If not, let the user download and install the new
version.  This should fix the problem once and for all.
>

I added that a while back... Unfortunately it doesn't help when people
distribute versions older than the one in which I added an update facility
:\

(To be clear, the colorcomputerarchive site is not doing this.  I don't
know where people are getting it)

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