Filepro Version 5.0.15
Bruce Easton
bruce at stn.com
Thu Oct 25 15:35:34 PDT 2007
Scott Walker wrote Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:28 PM:
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> filepro-list-bounces+scottwalker=ramsystemscorp.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+scottwalker=ramsystemscorp.com at lists.celest
> ial.com] On Behalf Of Jean-Pierre A. Radley
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:43 PM
> To: Scott Walker
> Cc: 'Bud Henschen'; 'filePro Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: Filepro Version 5.0.15
>
> Scott Walker propounded (on Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:58:36PM -0400):
> | Bud,
> |
> | Just a complaint. Take it for what it's worth.
> |
> | Over two and a half years ago I reported a bug in rreport version
> | 5.0.14.
> |
> | The bug was finally fixed in version 5.0.15.
> |
> | I was told I would have to download a license file from fptech for
> each
> | customer of mine and then install that file on their system. OK,
> | that's a pain, but to get this bug fixed I would go the extra mile.
> | I've had a customer complaining about it for over two years. Anyhow,
> I
> | put 5.0.15 rreport on the first (7) customer systems and guess what...
> | it will work on only (1) of them. Why? Because the license manager
> | code you grafted into 5.0.15 rreport requires the /usr/lib/libm.so.1
> and
> | related stuff to run. FP support tells me that to use 5.0.15 rreport
> | the customer has to have support level supplement 646 installed on
> their
> | SCO Unix operating system.
> |
> | So I'm faced with a situation where I now have to tell my customers to
> | fix a bug they've been complaining about for over 2 years, they now
> have
> | to get their system integrator to come in and patch their operating
> | system
> |
> | I really think it was a poor decision to implement this stuff in the
> way
> | it was. A bug fix release that was so long in coming should not
> require
> | me or my customers to jump through hoops.
>
>
> JP said:
> <dissent>
> So you've got customers running on OSR 5.0.[56]; every such system I've
> touched has oss646c installed. If you don't think your customers should
> upgrade to 5.0.7 or 6.0.0, then at least take advantage of oss646c. I
> can't see why one should be anything but thankful for that patch, since
> it allows lots of other binaries besides filePro's to run.
> </dissent>
>
> --
>
>
>
>
> Scott says:
>
> JP, as much as I respect your opinion, I disagree. There is one reason
> and one reason only that I want to put 5.0.15 rreport on these customers
> systems...a bug fix. They have waited 2 1/2 years for this bug fix.
> There is no justification that they should have to have their operating
> system patched for an application program bug fix. I did not install
> any of these SCO operating system. Different system integrators around
> the country have. I just work on the customers application program and
> typically my application is the only software running on their SCO
> server.
>
> fp versions 5.0.0 - 5.0.14 ran on these systems as is. 5.0.15 should
> also.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott
>
Scott - since it's been been 2 1/1 years - I'm curious - what was the bug
that was fixed?
Bruce
Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.
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