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  • Ver. 3.19b and WinXP?

    From Digital Man@1:103/705 to MRO on Fri Dec 30 13:35:20 2022
    Re: Ver. 3.19b and WinXP?
    By: MRO to Digital Man on Fri Dec 30 2022 04:49 am

    So meanwhile, like before, what you represent on the website is something with defects.

    Every software program of any substance has defects.

    this guy got 3.19b and had problems.

    And he has a solution:
    https://wiki.synchro.net/install:dev

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

    It takes literally *days* of work to put together an official release. I 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.

    I'm not clear what your point is. If the sysop wants to run a newer 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.

    Synchronet has official releases more often than any other BBS software... and it's not frequent enough for you?

    Synchronet has nightly development builds available for Windows and Linux-x86, and that's not enough for you?

    New people don't know how to update properly.

    "People" do it all the time.

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

    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.

    Whatever dude.
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