keytotime Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 (edited) There is a new beta of 7-ZipChangelog: DownloadDownload: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...lease_id=409551 Edited April 13, 2006 by keytotime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delprat Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 The changelog is there : http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.p...&group_id=14481and there's only "some bugs were fixed" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravisO Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Well he shaved 30k off the installer but my biggest complaint about 7Zip (and I bug the author from time to time) is that he never releases 7Zip as a "final" build, we're always in a perpectual beta.I'd like to point out that home users don't care, but companies wishing to deploy an app are not fond of deploying a "beta" build. Hopefully v4.20 will be a "final" build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin L Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 thanks, posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delprat Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Well he shaved 30k off the installer but my biggest complaint about 7Zip (and I bug the author from time to time) is that he never releases 7Zip as a "final" build, we're always in a perpectual beta.I'd like to point out that home users don't care, but companies wishing to deploy an app are not fond of deploying a "beta" build. Hopefully v4.20 will be a "final" build.This page says that v4.32 is "stable". AFAIK, the linux kernel never gone "final"...The same page says also v4.39 is out... I bet nobody but you want a "final" version... 'coz it'll mean "dead" -OR- "perfect"... and perfection is so boring... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravisO Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 (edited) AFAIK, the linux kernel never gone "final"...Didn't your mother ever ask you "If all of your friends jump off of a bridge would you follow?"I bet nobody but you want a "final" version... 'coz it'll mean "dead" -OR- "perfect"... and perfection is so boring...There is/was a real reason why things are labelled 'alpha','beta' and 'final' (aka non beta). Anybody that thinks beta means 'new', 'hot' & 'must use' have totally missed the concept and I guess we can blame Google for starting this mindset. Final (aka non beta) absolutely does not mean done, it merely means all the features in the current software are finished, tested and reliable.Anybody who versions their software in a perpetual beta is using it as a crutch so they have an excuse why something may not work. Edited April 13, 2006 by travisowens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n7Epsilon Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 4.39 is out !http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z439.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boooggy Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 (edited) god...that was fast..... Edited April 13, 2006 by boooggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delprat Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 There is/was a real reason why things are labelled 'alpha','beta' and 'final' (aka non beta). Anybody that thinks beta means 'new', 'hot' & 'must use' have totally missed the concept and I guess we can blame Google for starting this mindset. Final (aka non beta) absolutely does not mean done, it merely means all the features in the current software are finished, tested and reliable.Maybe i didn't express correctly... or maybe i don't understand the english words "final" & "stable" correctly (their translations are "finale" & "stable").But, what you're saying (mainly « all the features in the current software are finished, tested and reliable ») is, for me, not the definition of "final", but the definition of "stable".IMHO "final" also means that nothing more is to be added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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