Subj : Ver. 3.19b and WinXP?
To   : Digital Man
From : Brokenmind
Date : Fri Dec 30 2022 21:39:49

  Re: Ver. 3.19b and WinXP?
  By: Digital Man to MRO on Fri Dec 30 2022 01:35 pm

 >> You could just put a fixed up version with the installer for the new
 >> people. 

 DM> It takes literally *days* of work to put together an official release. I
 DM> don't do that more than once or twice a year for a good reason.

 >> I know in this case it's trivial because nobody wants to run xp, but
 >> there have been more serious issues.
 DM> I'm not clear what your point is. If the sysop wants to run a newer
 DM> version that compatible with XP, he can.

 >> You're really throwing a roadblock by ignoring what you represent and
 >> putting so much into cvs and later git.

 DM> Synchronet has official releases more often than any other BBS software...
 DM> and it's not frequent enough for you?
 DM> Synchronet has nightly development builds available for Windows and
 DM> Linux-x86, and that's not enough for you?

 >> New people don't know how to update properly.

 DM> "People" do it all the time.

 >> that's why synchronet has
 >> such a bad reputation and people can say only programmers can run it.

 DM> Because I don't make releases often enough? I don't buy that.

 >> It's bad enough we lost most of our users, now we are losing new
 >> sysops. Please just try to put yourself in these people's shoes. Shit
 >> gets really convoluted with the way you guys do things.  It could be
 >> worse, but it could also be better.

 DM> Whatever dude.

Sometimes you just have to learn as you go and not be handed everything at once. You learn alot more even though it make take some time. the Dev team goes way out of there way and above and beyound with what they do on there free time along with all the support that is given in the IRC Channel which has always been great. The only problem i have had and it's quite irrating is that when they switched from CVS to git it's hard for me to update things on my own. The date modifed on all the files in the zip packages are set to the date that it's released and ready to download each day. It really used to help me when i could tell what files were modified and when they were last modified. I do read the updates on the message boards but at times i fall behind to know whats been changed. i have not figured a good work around yet so i am just waiting until the dev team has the time to fully release a full update or until i learn a work around that works for my situation. this is on me not on the dev team but if they could help me figure out a better way or a work around it would make my life a lot eaiser.

Thank you guys for your support as always

BrokenMind
The Insane Asylum BBS
tiabbs.synchro.net

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