I agree with xCept.
Ancient Lady only today saved me from throwing my toys out of the pram again by directing me to her 1076 player.
It's extremely frustrating, irrespective of the progress that's been made, I find it incredibly annoying that "new" stuff is being developed when there are plenty of issues requiring attention on the current release version.
I hope to hell there's a changelog available when there is a final release of this version. It's going to take me a long time to "convert" up I think with all the workarounds, when I dare to go for it.
There's lots of lovely fixes and enhacements to existing functions in there, but they can't be utilised with all the instability.
I've conversed directly with Lee about roadmaps, changelogs, branches and what-not in the past. I know how difficult it is, operating a medium sized software development company myself. You have to balance the needs of the existing users with new, marketable features. Profit sheet vs customer satisfaction: it's a fact of life. Doesn't make it any easier for the existing customer though.
Hmm.. I told myself not to post in this 108 thread.. good job I'm just a hobbyist game developer and not relying on this for income.
I'd have to say that all the focus on windows 8 and intel competitions really leaves me cold. I don't care. I want a stable product for what I started off developing against. Next thing we'll see is 109 - raspberry pi support
Hmm.. I've had a cigarette and reread my post, wondering if I've gone too ranty. No, it's ok.
People testing and checking out the 108 beta are really helping and I don't want to sound like a whining git, but TGC have to hear what users are saying.
The state of the published android player as xCept points out, is what has really wound me up. I've used 3 different players with the same version number now. If that happenned in my company we would breach our quality guidelines and someone would be on the hotseat (it's a pet peeve of mine).
