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Yes, I plan on doing that.
Eric
On Monday, February 18, 2002, at 06:16 PM, Ryan La Riviere wrote:
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> On 02/18/2002 10:32, "Colter Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> On 2/18/02 07:31, "Juergen Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>> Maybe a stupid question of a newbie: I had 0.29b installed and
>>> everything
>>> was fine. Now I installed the new TOT from the link (see included
>>> message)
>>> and the interface has changed a little bit and all my accounts are
>>> gone!? Or
>>> aren't they not and I don't find them, only?
>>
>> I don't think it's a good idea to have someone making the TOT builds
>> readily
>> available for your average Joe User to download and run. People who
>> don't
>> understand the software development process are going to come across
>> the
>> file and think they're getting a sweet, new version of Fire with lots
>> of new
>> bells and whistles without realizing the inherent risks. I'll
>> reiterate
>> Eric's warning: The TOT builds are not guaranteed to be anything.
>> Stable?
>> No. User-friendly? No. Take up space on your hard drive? Perhaps.
>> It's
>> not release-quality software. If it was, we'd release a new version.
>> But
>> if you enjoy living on the edge and want to help beta-test Fire and
>> improve
>> it, download the source, waste clock cycles, build your own and run a
>> cvs
>> build.
>
> I have a little free space and I like playing with pre-release software.
> Don't know about Juergen though.
>
>> Yes, the UI is changing.
>
> And I like where it's gone so far.
>
>> On 2/18/02 08:02, "Ryan La Riviere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>> I noticed that the other day. The account info is now stored in it's
>>> own
>>> file now. Fire doesn't seem to know to move the info from the old
>>> version
>>> to the new format...yet. Hopefully that will be implemented so user
>>> accounts migrate forward when the .30a version is released.
>>
>> No. Account migration will not be implemented. I tried to be
>> accommodating
>> and taught Fire to migrate the location of the application support
>> files,
>> and that caused as many problems as it solved. Having to reenter your
>> account information is a little less traumatic than entering all your
>> buddies again. There will be a note in the ReadMe and that's it.
>
> I can live with that. I'd like to make a suggestion. When someone
> runs the
> new version (after having been running the older version), they should
> be
> given a warning that they'll have to re-enter their account info (for
> those
> that tend to not read readme's on released software...such as me; I do
> however read any info I can on pre-software).
>
> That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
>
> --
>
> Ryan "My hometown is nowhere, my friends are everywhere." La Riviere
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> System Administrator; Drexel University
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