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My install flat out GPF'd when verifying the functions. I couldn't finish
the install. They tell me it's prob caused by a corrupted or missing???
token file in the workspace. From a development point of view in my
opinion there's no excuse for this except that the programmers were sloppy.
Throwing unhanded exceptions means that the programmer didn't take the
time to write an error trapping routine or at least write code to handle a
situation where a file is missing or corrupted. QA didn't stop to test for
a situation like this either. If the possibility exists that a file could
be missing or corrupted that could cause a GP then the code should skip the
file and move on to the next. Report files that are missing or corrupted
at the end of processing or don't at all; anything but a GP. This is
always a possibility when dealing with files and should always be routine
code when writing file handling code. Windows rarely if ever throws
exceptions but returns error codes. COM will if you're using smartpointers
but you can always handle them in your code.
Now I've got to spend god knows how much more time working around this
problem instead of using the product.
Oh well, another service pack another failed promise. At least the
chromacoding in EL works and TS4 still works acceptably.
I can't believe you can be so sloppy. I didn't think they had it in them.
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Wright [SMTP:lwright@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 6:51 PM
To: Jimmy Snowden
Cc: .Omega List
Subject: SP3 & TS uninstall
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Jimmy Snowden wrote:
> I bitched so much the Omega gave me an early copy of SP3. I now have the
> build 707. When I changed from SP1 to SP2 and again when I changed from
SP2
> to SP3 I had to make new workspaces. Some of them don't seem to be
> compatible from version to version.
Same here...
Although the *official* word is that SP3 will install over SP2, etc, I
was advised to UNINSTALL TS to avoid problems with SP3, and to REBUILD
all pages over again. I'm testing some old ones, and I do see problems...
Larry
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