new features

[Brian K. White]

On 5/30/2014 12:36 PM, Scott Walker wrote:
> With so many long time fp developers complaining (at least on this list)
> about the license manager, it would be nice to hear from some developers who
> have moved to the later versions....
>
> what are your actual experiences running with the license manager....does it
> actually create real world problems for you supporting your customers?  Are
> the new features in later versions of fp worth the license manager issues
> (if any).

It created real world problems for us, other than the problems it 
intentionally causes that is. We wanted those nested calls and larger 
tok tables and 26 indexes.

We couldn't invest the time to track it down because to cause the 
problem required putting it into production, but suffering the problem 
in production was not tolerable.

It was quite a while ago and I don't have exact details. Things hung or 
failed randomly. Maybe it was just when a new process was starting up, 
or maybe it was also lookups or other functions failing occasionally. 
The manager is granular enough to enable/disable individual functions 
and features, which means things could fail at that level too.

We were using a local file style of license too, no network hiccups to 
worry about.

Fled back to 5.0.14 and stayed there.

We didn't try very hard to resolve it because we've already tried very 
hard to resolve other problems and offered to pay whatever they wanted 
to get to the bottom of it after investing a lot of our own time too, 
all to no avail. So, that would be a dumb thing to try again.

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bkw