5.0 ruins existing code lines

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JSager
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5.0 ruins existing code lines

Post by JSager » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:35 am

Hi guys -

I may be a bit late in pointing this out now, but you should hear it nonetheless.

I am a developer who works on a product which includes iMacros.

Recently, due to the Windows security issue with file download boxes, we needed to move from iOpus 4.x to iMacros 5.x

In doing so I discovered that you folks at iOpus have broken one of the cardinal rules of software releases:

NEVER break existing code that depends on yours.

Couldn't you have just left the scripting commands that used to be in there alone and deprecated them like everyone else does? You can always add new commands, but don't EVER take existing ones away!

You completely broke our application and I had to spend three days of developer time and weeks of QA time (can you hear the words FULL REGRESSION TESTING ringing in your head? I can). The fact that you don't intend to fix the security problem in version 4 combined with the fact that it's a complete blocker cost my company many thousands of dollars.

My company's been using your products since the early days of version 3, and your software has gotten a heck of a lot better during that time. Next time you upgrade it, please respect that fact that there's a lot of production level code out in the field that depends on you not whimsically changing your scripting interface commands between versions.

Yours,
Jeremy Sager
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