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 Message 2704 
 Martin Foster to August Abolins 
 WinPoint development 
 23 Feb 22 11:48:00 
 
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Hello August!

*** Monday 21.02.22 at 14:29, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 AA>>> So.. should 359.1 be considered "decomissioned"? ..and never to
 AA>>> be used?

 MF>> Yes, that's absolutely correct.

 AA> What if someone comes along and wants to dabble with 359.1
 AA> According to winpoint.org, the older versions are made
 AA> available too.  :(

I really can't imagine anyone wanting to dabble with a 15 year old beta  
when Tim's pushing out regular updates.

 MF>>>> I obviously leave it up to your good judgement as to
 MF>>>> what you do with your "PROS and CONS" chart on your
 MF>>>> site.

 AA>>> Maybe I can simply create a link to the CONS for 359.1 to
 AA>>> point to a subpage or something.

 MF>> Why ??

 AA> 'Cuz.. as long as Tim is still offering the older versions, our
 AA> combined research on the the PROS and CONS might still be
 AA> useful?

Maybe ?

 AA>>> Meanwhile, the main table could be populated with pending
 AA>>> CONS for the latest version?

 MF>> Out of the 17 "CONS", there's now only 4 which are still
 MF>> valid and I can think of at least one addition to the
 MF>> "PROS" :-)

 AA> Let me know which ones are which.  I can start to update things
 AA> when I remember how I created that page!

OK, will do but I don't have time to do that right now, "real life"  
intervenes :(

Hopefully, I'll have time to do it in the next few days.

Regards,
Martin

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