Why?

[Walter Vaughan]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
<snip>
> If I build an app, and I deploy a couple hundred copies on a given
> point release of filePro, and test it six ways to Sunday over hundreds
> of hours of labor...
> 
> and then you tell me that I am *required* to upgrade the engine
> gratuitously.

I don't know why I am jumping in here, everyone can fight their own 
battles...

But if all of a sudden you had problems with 5.0.09, wouldn't it be 
incumbent upon you to test with a 5.0.13 version to see if that fixed 
the problem? I see well over a hundred things fixed between those 
versions, some pretty major.

The unsaid issue here is that for Win32 native users, you need to 
license filePro to a specific hard drive volume ID. Not a problem if you 
have a one2one relationship between paid versions and installations. 
Problematic if you try and run fp on a computer and you don't have an 
activation key that that matches your hard disk's current volume ID. I 
believe 5.0.09 did not require that type of activation for Win32 users, 
which may be the reason for some to not move past that release point.

--
Walter