moogal posted at 10:24AM Wed, 08 November 2017 - #4317550

EClark1894

Studio is in constant beta.

It's not constantly in beta any more than any other program in the process of being developed. There are stable releases, and they are soon followed by beta releases. That is something you can do when you are giving the program away, and technically SM do the same thing as we are always waiting on SRs to fix things. If you don't like using beta software, limit yourself to the most recent stable release. Just don't disingenuously make it sound like the program is in some kind of perpetually unusable state.

Gee, wonder where I might have gotten that idea? Oh, I know... And I never said Studio was in a perpetually unusable state. Those are your words. You use 'em, then take all the credit for them.

From the DAZ Studio Software forum:

General Release, Public Build, BETA... What is the difference?

General Release and Public Build are release channels, while BETA is a phase of development.

Daz Studio is distributed through five separate channels:

**•General Release **- This channel is where the production ready build is distributed, and is open to the general public.

**•Publishing Build **- This channel is where [optional] builds that are not considered ready for General Release, but are considered stable enough to introduce into a production environment by early adopters, are provided to our Published Artists—determined by the Publishing department. This channel typically provides a build that is in the BETA or Release Candidate (RC) phase of development.

**•Public Build **- This channel is where the builds that are not considered stable yet are provided for testing by the general public. This channel typically provides a build that is in the BETA phase of development, but technically can provide a build in the ALPHA phase.

**•Private Build **- This channel is similar to the Public Build channel, except it is limited to a select group of individuals that serve as the "front line" or the "canary in a coal mine" for a time before the build is promoted to a less restricted channel. This channel is more likely to see an ALPHA build than the Public Build channel is.

**•Dev Build **- This channel provides "bleeding edge" ALPHA builds; sometimes referred to as the "nightly build"; although the builds are not limited to one per night or to strictly occurring at night.

As far as I can see there's not much difference between each of these stages except for how it's distributed. That's not me saying it, it's THEM.

And for the record, I don't often update Poser's SRs. If my program's working fine for me, I'm good with it.