Fixing Bugs?

rdtmk5

Now that user participation in the process has been effectively stifled (which, from a business perspective, I somewhat understand), can someone tell me if work continues on addressing the numerous bugs identified in PT2008? When will we see the next update?

Thanks. And keep up the good work!

leonardo

I fully support this question on when to expect the next version, including as many bug fixes as possible!

Thanks, :|

jv16

New bug fix release will be released in this month. The development has moved on to PT 2009, but that doesn't mean that the remaining bugs of the PT 2008 won't be fixed.

redseujac

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jv16

jv16 wrote
The development has moved on to PT 2009, but that doesn't mean that the remaining bugs of the PT 2008 won't be fixed.

And by the way, by this I mean that yes, we are already working on PT 2009 but some of its new features are released with the next bug fix releases of PT 2008. One big thing I have been working the past weeks is the improvement of the general code quality, there are over 100 000 lines of code in the application and making sure everything works perfectly is a difficult taks.

We have decided to attack the quality issues with:

1) an improved debug logging system (the program outputs a better quality jv16PT_debuglog.txt when ran in debug mode),

2) better automated bug detection system (improved unit testing) and

3) silver-bullet solution for memory leaks (garbage collector).

Feature 1 is already done, features 2 and 3 will be done hopefully in next week. In addition, I have improved a new safety feature introduced to PT 2008 a few months ago called SafetyNet. Its a simple component that checks every single registry entry and file printed to screen and makes sure it's not possible to do anything that looks very dangerous, like trying to delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software.

The big new features of the upcoming PT 2009 are not at the moment being developed by myself, therefore I have focused all my powers to attacking the program quality problems. This is why it's not a tradeoff between fixing bugs and implementing new features.