filePro Upgrade help

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In the relative spacial/temporal region of Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:48:56AM
-0400, Kroboth, Joe achieved the spontaneous generation of the following:
> I can understand this if we were talking filePro 5.7 or some version with
> new features added.  5.6.10 is nothing but a bug fix version of 5.6. If
> the system worked with 5.6 it should work with a bug fix version.

Joe,

Don't feel singled out.  A former client of mine got the shaft when
upgrading his 5.6.x to a newer 5.6.x (I think it was around 5.6.7) on an
RHEL system.  He was on RHEL3 at the time, which wasn't EOL yet.  He had to
wait until he replaced the system and moved up to RHEL5 to upgrade fP.

I totally agree with you, however.  In fact, with the presence of VM
software out there, it's nothing to stick a VM with a 5GB VDI on a system,
fire it up, compile, and shut it down.  In other words, there's no excuse
for not keeping the platforms around on which you built the original
builds for the major release.  It's not like the old days where you needed
an extra physical box per platform.  I'm running two linux dists plus
freebsd, all on WinXP.  I keep one VM (my development system) on at all
times--starts up as part of my login sequence.  The others I bring up and
down as needed.

mark->
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