TotalCommander 8.50, lost ..?

[retalv]

Sorry for the pleasantry ... TotalCommander 8.50 will be released or "we threw out the baby with the bathwater"?

With all due respect to the author and the excellent adjustment work, six months (to date) is a little less than a premature birth, not a bugfix.

The final release is scheduled for this week or is still "a later date"?

Do not be touchy ...

[theosdikaios]

IMHO there is nothing wrong with it. A file manager is a special program. If there is an error in it big data losses are possible. If you're impatient then you could use beta releases and release candidates on your own risk.

[karlchen]

Total Commander is Swiss software: the release candidates will have less bugs than the final releases of most other non-Swiss software products.

[Sir_SiLvA]

Sorry for the pleasantry ... TotalCommander 8.50 will be released or "we threw out the baby with the bathwater"?
With all due respect to the author and the excellent adjustment work, six months (to date) is a little less than a premature birth, not a bugfix.
The final release is scheduled for this week or is still "a later date"?
Do not be touchy ...

If you dont like the way Chris do the things please go and use Svens Software: www.speedproject.de

[Lefteous]

From the perspective of a former private beta test team member I thought without a private beta test it wouldn't take so many months compared to private + public beta test. But it seems it still takes quite a long time. I think there isn't much that can be done here. Maybe calling it RC earlier makes people more aware of the need to test more.

Nevertheless thorough testing should be standard in the software industry. It often isn't performed because of customer-unfriendly licensing systems and greedy publishers.

[retalv]

From the perspective of a former private beta test team member I thought without a private beta test it wouldn't take so many months compared to private + public beta test. But it seems it still takes quite a long time. I think there isn't much that can be done here. Maybe calling it RC earlier makes people more aware of the need to test more.

Nevertheless thorough testing should be standard in the software industry. It often isn't performed because of customer-unfriendly licensing systems and greedy publishers.

Among the many replies "just to write something" this is for now the only one worthy of an answer: I understand and agree with what you write, but considering what has been shown by the author ...

"The Beta forum has been closed temporarily to avoid That the beta test goes on forever."

... he seems to suggest the presence of a quagmire regarding the release of the final version.

Thus ignoring any future replies without sense, I wait updates from the author himself if he has the courtesy to do with it.

Thank you all for your attention.

[karlchen]

My reply had not been written just in order to write something. I have trusted T.C. 8.50 rc1-3 to handle my data properly and used it on my "productive" data. - Obviously I cannot tell when exactly T.C. 8.50 final will be released. - Yet, whoever wants to use T.C. 8.50 without risking to lose their data can do so already.

Karl

[retalv]

My reply had not been written just in order to write something. I have trusted T.C. 8.50 rc1-3 to handle my data properly and used it on my "productive" data. - Obviously I cannot tell when exactly T.C. 8.50 final will be released. - Yet, whoever wants to use T.C. 8.50 without risking to lose their data can do so already.

This is a development choice, debatable but ineluctable, which often leads to the likely release in a short time version of the classic "X.X1" to which we have become accustomed.

I agree @Lefteous on possible reasons: I also believe that few users (I am one of those) because of the sensitivity of the data handled and much less if registered, have the courage to use a beta or RC, if not solely providing a brief, though comforted from the statements of the author on the stability of the product.
I followed the tread from the first RC and I do not remember in tracking error of the critical functions that cause data loss: a computer software is not a watch, even if Swiss, the issue would only broaden the audience to discover and fix small bugs were secondary

We could go on for hours talking about it, but it would be a boring discussion if not barren, not having (rightly) entry on the subject ...

[ZoSTeR]

but it would be a boring discussion

It already is, unless you have a bug or actual dysfunction to report.

[KC_]

Hi, do you find it difficult to wait for a new TC version?

Thanks.

[meisl]

but it would be a boring discussion

It already is [...]

Not only this, as of now it's obsolete: Total Commander 8.50 final available (32bit+64bit)

[CopyCats]

Hi, do you find it difficult to wait for a new TC version?

Thanks.
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Total Commander 9.0

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Do you?

[KC_]

Hi, do you find it difficult to wait for a new TC version?

Thanks.
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# 251045
Total Commander 9.0

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Do you?