Association Subscribers Manager: Iso-functionnality test surprises !
By Arnaud Dupuis on Tuesday 6 January 2009, 12:10 - Association Subscribers Manager - Permalink
Hi,
I am still very busy with the upcomming release of the 3.0 version of Association Subscribers Manager, right now I am testing the iso-functionnality with the previous version (2.2).
While doing those test, I ran into something very funny... funny because it was quickly fixed, else it could have been a real drama for Association Subscribers Manager users !
The actual problem was that I forgot to include the "Address" field in the new version. While it look like something completly harmless it is the total opposite. In fact, the 3.0 version introduce a brand new subscribers database XML based file format named ADB. Obviously the old XML format is also supported and Association Subscribers Manager users can import their old file in the new version and Association Subscribers Manager will automatically convert the old file into the new format. All those are pretty well tested features and very bug resistant (since the original file is not modified no informations can be lost). This is where the critical point is : between an old file and a new one Association Subscribers Manager loose the address since it was not supported by the GUI...
Fortunatly, this awfull "bug" is now corrected in the SVN trunk and hopefully I will not run into such big mistakes again !
The final release of the 3.0 version of Association Subscribers Manager is planned to be release by the end of april.
As already described, this software is completly FOSS and can be downloaded and installed from the SVN for free under the term of the GPL.
Additionnaly I will provide purchasable binary build of this software for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
Arnaud Dupuis.
I am still very busy with the upcomming release of the 3.0 version of Association Subscribers Manager, right now I am testing the iso-functionnality with the previous version (2.2).
While doing those test, I ran into something very funny... funny because it was quickly fixed, else it could have been a real drama for Association Subscribers Manager users !
The actual problem was that I forgot to include the "Address" field in the new version. While it look like something completly harmless it is the total opposite. In fact, the 3.0 version introduce a brand new subscribers database XML based file format named ADB. Obviously the old XML format is also supported and Association Subscribers Manager users can import their old file in the new version and Association Subscribers Manager will automatically convert the old file into the new format. All those are pretty well tested features and very bug resistant (since the original file is not modified no informations can be lost). This is where the critical point is : between an old file and a new one Association Subscribers Manager loose the address since it was not supported by the GUI...
Fortunatly, this awfull "bug" is now corrected in the SVN trunk and hopefully I will not run into such big mistakes again !
The final release of the 3.0 version of Association Subscribers Manager is planned to be release by the end of april.
As already described, this software is completly FOSS and can be downloaded and installed from the SVN for free under the term of the GPL.
Additionnaly I will provide purchasable binary build of this software for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
Arnaud Dupuis.