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Re: (ASCEND) ascend software releases
owner-ascend-users-digest@max.bungi.com wrote:
> From: Kevin Smith <kevin@ascend.com>
> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 18:43:22 -0700
> Subject: Re: (ASCEND) ascend software releases
>
> At 06:18 PM 8/21/97 -0600, Marc Slemko wrote:
> >Why has Ascend started making their docs impossible to use? If I want to
> >know the difference between 5.0Ap6 and p16, I can't just print the notes
> >for each revision between them.
>
> We used to do that, and got more complaints - "why don't you guys have
> cumulative release notes"....so we did!
I'm MUCH MORE HAPPY with the new model of the documentation than
before.
Now if I get a new i or p version and want fo find the new
enhancements/patchs
since "the beggining" I just need to look in a single file and read it.
It has the changes made on, lets say, p3, p5, p8...etc in a single file.
Before that I had to check each file from each release note...
> >Not only do they insist on putting the
> >notes for all the patch releases in the file, but now they have gone one
> >step further and are mixing them together! The list of problems fixed is
> >sorted by TR number, so to find what is fixed in a release you have to
> >hunt through the whole list.
OOpss.. that is bad :(( I like to have all TR fixed sorted by pach
and not by TR. Is it possible Kevin?
> You can look at the list that I always post on this list when a release
> is made. That is a simple list of what was fixed and enhancements added...
Or check the README file...
> I'll also pass on this observation to the tech-pubs people, and maybe we
> can have an index that does what you're asking for...
>
> > If someone people want the full notes, that
> >is fine; just also make the individual release notes available. We like
> >hard copies of such things, and it is stupid to print out all the 5.0Ap
> >notes every time a new release comes out.
>
> OK, we'll look into it (I surrender, we can't win!)....
I don't waste paper each time a new release comes out... Think of all
those poor trees... :))
I prefer to have all the notes in a single file and check it any time
I want. It's much more simple to do a "find" on the text. Also it is
much
more simple to, when one has and particular p relase with a problem,
check the following releases to see when (if... :))) it was fixed.
--
Rui Bastos (rdb@pintobasto.pt)
Pinto Basto Electrotecnia e Maquinas
Tel: +351 1 3972041 Fax: +351 1 3972595
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