All I can say is ... Ewww. Packaging stinks everywhere, but that does look tremendously frustrating.
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Brian Leach <br...@brianleach.co.uk> wrote: > Almost all my frustrations are with Microsoft. > > Over half the development I did last year was simply handling differences > between Win7x64 and previous versions.. which in turn meant upgrading my > development platforms (Delphi and .Net) and dealing with THEIR backward > incompatibilities, spending stupid amounts on new installation software to > rebuild all my setups and discovering that they were also not backward > compatible with regard to the plug-in DLLs I needed (and the first one I > bought ONLY worked on Win7 and not on XP, as I discovered too late), and > then changing my licensing routines and where I install data .. did you know > that there is actually now NO place in Windows 7 where you can officially > install updatable files that can be shared between users without breaking > UAC? > > All of which has taken months of my time that should have been better spent > on improving the products, not hitting my head against whatever walls > Microsoft keeps raising. > > So compared to that, it's nice to have at least one platform (U2) that > remains relatively stable! > > Rant over .. for now. > > > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Lettau, Jeff > Sent: 18 February 2011 18:43 > To: U2 Users List > Subject: Re: [U2] Frustrated with Rocket / Unidata 7.2 > > Yes, it appears to me that the issue I experienced was related to updated > security in win2008, not in unidata. > > I've also noticed that every upgrade breaks something. Sometimes you get > lucky and things run for 10 years, then one day, BAM! A program stops > working after you upgrade the database. It's the nature of the job. Things > change. Things break. Things need to be fixed. That is what testing is > for. > > Jeffrey Lettau > ERP Systems Manager > polkaudio > > > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
