Post by George on Jul 16, 2024 12:06:38 GMT -5
Hi,
With the help of the Alpha and Beta testers who assisted (many, many thanks for their help and patience), Release 3 has made it out the door. Externally not much has altered, but let me assure you an awful lot happened 'under the covers'. Because of that, this meant that changes were made throughout the code and so, regardless of how much testing took place, there may still be lurking problems. We don't want to 'burn any bridges' by eliminating SPFLite2.
So Release 3 will install in a new \SPFLite3 folder alongside the existing \SPFLite2 folder. In addition the main program name moves from SPFLite2.EXE to SPFLite3.EXE. This will enable use of both old and new releases at the same time. Your settings and configuration will work as normal. When you are comfortable that Release 3 is stable and working to your satisfaction, you can uninstall Release 2 using the normal Windows Uninstall support.
Full details of what has changed are available here.
But why a big change with very little external effect?
I've been trying to back out of SPFLite work for quite a while, (not too successfully). But now my age and body are forcing me to give up, so I wanted to 'clean up' the code I've been poking and prodding at for the last 20 years. At least if someone else picks up the baton to continue development, the code is quite a bit cleaner.
You can get the new release here.
George
With the help of the Alpha and Beta testers who assisted (many, many thanks for their help and patience), Release 3 has made it out the door. Externally not much has altered, but let me assure you an awful lot happened 'under the covers'. Because of that, this meant that changes were made throughout the code and so, regardless of how much testing took place, there may still be lurking problems. We don't want to 'burn any bridges' by eliminating SPFLite2.
So Release 3 will install in a new \SPFLite3 folder alongside the existing \SPFLite2 folder. In addition the main program name moves from SPFLite2.EXE to SPFLite3.EXE. This will enable use of both old and new releases at the same time. Your settings and configuration will work as normal. When you are comfortable that Release 3 is stable and working to your satisfaction, you can uninstall Release 2 using the normal Windows Uninstall support.
Full details of what has changed are available here.
But why a big change with very little external effect?
I've been trying to back out of SPFLite work for quite a while, (not too successfully). But now my age and body are forcing me to give up, so I wanted to 'clean up' the code I've been poking and prodding at for the last 20 years. At least if someone else picks up the baton to continue development, the code is quite a bit cleaner.
You can get the new release here.
George