TalleyJC opened this issue on Sep 30, 2002 ยท 13 posts
CyberStretch posted Mon, 30 September 2002 at 10:37 PM
Guarie, I think you misunderstood my post, unless you were replying to TalleyJC's. P5 is a huge application and, given the number of "bugs" repaired in SR-1 (Service Release 1) alone - plus any additional ones found thereafter, would mean that in order to install a perfectly working copy of P5, you would have to: 1. Install P5 2. Install SR-1 3. Install SR-2, etc This should not be a "major" issue, unless you have dial-up, but if someone's hard drive were to fail or if they get a new system and - for one reason or another - cannot copy over the patch files from the old one, this could prove to be an inconvenience. What I was suggesting is that instead of continually producing P5 CDs, that once the major bugs were remedied, that CL make available a P5 SR-? CD (where the ? would be the final Service Release) so users could install the updated P5 (incorporating all of the SR patches) on the initial install. Many software companies do this and it would seem to be the most beneficial to the community as well. CL could still charge for the CD, duplication costs, and shipping and handling - although one could argue that the patched P5 should be free since they already paid for a fully working P5 to begin with. Downloading large files on dial-up connections can prove to be tricky too. Some of the P5 user-base still have to rely on the slow 56k (well, actually 53k max in the US) connection as they have no other Internet options available to them. Therefore, if the size of the SR patches are too great, some users may not be able to download them at all.