I use a dtap street for my regular delphi development: develop/test/acceptance/production. It allows me to fix bugs found in the production environment without trouble for my development branch containing not production ready enhancements and changes. If there’s a new version of Delphi I get an update, install it in a test environment and after approval it’s been installed in my production street.
Now SC: I have a working application and I deployed it. I found some issues to solve. There’s a new version of sc. This version brings back old issues in my case: I cannot deploy it’s a showstopper. Of course i can reload from backup but the main issue is that you can never trust that your application will run in the future. Of course you will do everything possible to solve issues fast, but it’s not a very professional way and very hard to ‘sell’ to the management. In fact it’s deadly. If I would be able to install SC on two locations I would be able to test the new release first before I use it in my production environment. Now I have to ‘trust’ SC that the new version will not introduce new and old bugs. Or I have to stick with the current release for ever…
This is not the first post on this matter, I’ve read posts of others too. I sincerely hope that someone of the management of SC will overlook this issue. Again it’s deadly for professional developers. I need to be able to trust what I have.
albert drent
aducom software