[MlMt] What version of MailMate are you running?

[Henry Seiden]

Well said, John.

Respectfully,

Henry Seiden
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On 19 Nov 2024, at 9:39, John Cooper wrote:

> Charlie Clark wrote (at 5:35 AM on Tuesday, November 19, 2024):
>
>> I think you've mischaracterised what Benny has done.…You must 
>> realise, that as a commercial product, he has to be sure that an 
>> official release really is rock solid; I can think of quite a few 
>> large software companies that could learn from this.
>
> Eager as we understandably are to shield the author of a beloved 
> software product from even the gentlest implied criticism, I think 
> everyone can agree that Benny’s versioning strategy is eccentric, to 
> say the least. The MailMate 1.14 I’m using now (let’s leave the 
> build numbers to the geeks) has undergone countless major improvements 
> and rewrites since the release of MailMate 1.0 over 13 (!) years ago. 
> There is no reason to wait for well over a decade of continual 
> improvement to upgrade a version number by a single digit, even if the 
> UI has not been completely rethought. (I would argue that there have 
> been plenty of significant changes to the interface as well.) This 
> situation confuses new users. I suspect it’s also deprived Benny of 
> a good deal of new-user revenue, as potential users see the low 
> version number and interpret it to mean that the program has not 
> undergone the significant updates that it has.
>
> For all this time, I’ve generally been using MailMate’s latest 
> development build, lagging no more than a couple of weeks behind, and 
> the issues (bugs) I’ve encountered have been vanishingly few.  I can 
> think of no other software company small or large that is so 
> conservative in its versioning. Benny’s development versions are 
> easily as robust as most companies’ beta versions. Benny’s betas 
> are analogous to official releases. There is no bug-free software 
> product. Users should feel confident in using more recent builds than 
> the release level would indicate.
>
> Devyn Osborne wrote:
>
>> Are there worthwhile fixes or new features past 1.14 (5937)? Is there 
>> a particularly stable version that people are using?
>
> In MailMate, you can select Help > Release Notes to see a list of all 
> changes to builds released since February 23, 2011. The significant 
> changes since the release of build 5937 are too many to list.
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