Version 1.1 of Manager and EntryClient release
Today we have released new versions of EpiData Manager and EpiData EntryClient.
As with the first public release of Manager and EntryClient, this release has been packed in an installer which should work for Mac, Windows and Linux.
The changes made are in short:
* An issue with saving project files where pathnames/filename contained non-ASCII characters. * Fixed a number of bugs related to importing data. * Fixed a number of bugs related to saving colour settings in EntryClient.
The updated versions are available from the download page on http://www.epidata.dk
The release is part of the new principle, where a given new version first is placed as a beta version on the testing page and then moved to a public release on the download page if no problems show up. Therefore the v1.1 placed on the download page today is the same as the beta version placed for about a week on the testing page.
On the testing page you will then find two versions: a. the next version to be released in general (such as v1.1) b. The current development (alpha) version, which you can consider a temporary "how far is the development currently" - users testing obviously must recognise that changes will occur during development.
In all cases do not use the versions on the testing page for production work - only to influence development and test whether future releases have solved the problems identified.
Kind regards, Torsten Bonde Christiansen, Jens M. Lauritsen. EpiData Association.
Hello Torsten and Jens:
This is nice. But, ¿when are we going to have the source code of EpiData, to leave the software free as in freedom? I know that's part of the schedule.
Regards,
El 16/02/12 07:31, epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca escribió:
Today we have released new versions of EpiData Manager and EpiData EntryClient.
As with the first public release of Manager and EntryClient, this release has been packed in an installer which should work for Mac, Windows and Linux.
The changes made are in short:
- An issue with saving project files where pathnames/filename contained non-ASCII characters.
- Fixed a number of bugs related to importing data.
- Fixed a number of bugs related to saving colour settings in
EntryClient.
The updated versions are available from the download page on http://www.epidata.dk
The release is part of the new principle, where a given new version first is placed as a beta version on the testing page and then moved to a public release on the download page if no problems show up. Therefore the v1.1 placed on the download page today is the same as the beta version placed for about a week on the testing page.
On the testing page you will then find two versions: a. the next version to be released in general (such as v1.1) b. The current development (alpha) version, which you can consider a temporary "how far is the development currently" - users testing obviously must recognise that changes will occur during development.
In all cases do not use the versions on the testing page for production work
- only to influence development and test whether future releases have
solved the problems identified.
Kind regards, Torsten Bonde Christiansen, Jens M. Lauritsen. EpiData Association.
EpiData-list mailing list EpiData-list@lists.umanitoba.ca http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/epidata-list
On 03/06/2012 01:53 PM, epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
Hello Torsten and Jens:
This is nice. But, ¿when are we going to have the source code of EpiData, to leave the software free as in freedom? I know that's part of the schedule.
As previously announced - and as you write - this will happen when we have been through all parts of the software functionality. As soon as the principles are settled we will announce an opening fiesta ....
It makes no sense to give insight before we get to that point - this is also a resource consideration. You might argue we would get more input by giving the source code free, which can be true.
But due to the diligent and very sensitive development where introduction of errors or discrepancies can ruin data I cannot take responsibility before the end to have an open principle. At that point we will also have a setup for maintenance and evaluation and long-term ownership - hopefully by a larger group of organisations.
regards
Jens Lauritsen EpiData Association
Thanks Jens:
By now, I'm just testing, sometimes, when I use the new version. (Because I use a lot of double data entry and relational database entry, new version is not full functional for me by now).
Meanwhile, do you have any recommendations to people that want to help maintaining the future open source code? For example, maybe you can recommend to people like me to learn Pascal using a tools like free-pascal or lazarus, or to learn Java... Or maybe we can help planning wish license can be the best suitable to EpiData (GPL, LGPL, BSD, and so on).
Regards,
El 06/03/12 10:10, epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca escribió:
On 03/06/2012 01:53 PM, epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca wrote:
Hello Torsten and Jens:
This is nice. But, ¿when are we going to have the source code of EpiData, to leave the software free as in freedom? I know that's part of the schedule.
As previously announced - and as you write - this will happen when we have been through all parts of the software functionality. As soon as the principles are settled we will announce an opening fiesta ....
It makes no sense to give insight before we get to that point - this is also a resource consideration. You might argue we would get more input by giving the source code free, which can be true.
But due to the diligent and very sensitive development where introduction of errors or discrepancies can ruin data I cannot take responsibility before the end to have an open principle. At that point we will also have a setup for maintenance and evaluation and long-term ownership - hopefully by a larger group of organisations.
regards
Jens Lauritsen EpiData Association
EpiData-list mailing list EpiData-list@lists.umanitoba.ca http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/epidata-list
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