Re: [hylafax-users] Current release

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Darren Nickerson wrote:

> If you see anything with 5.x in it, it's not HylaFAX, but HylaFAX+. 
> HylaFAX+ is a separate software product, developed independently from 
> HylaFAX, and the two software products are not compatible with one 
> another. ie: you can't just change back and forth between them and 
> expect features and/or behaviour to be the same.


This is a very monochromatic way of putting things.

Virtually all users of HylaFAX 4.3.0 and earlier will be able to upgrade 
to HylaFAX+ 5.0.x without any incompatibility issues to worry about.  
Likewise, users of 4.3.1 will also be able to smoothly transition to 
5.0.x without any compatibility concerns provided that they haven't 
customized the notification mail templates.  (And even then, customizing 
the mailing scripts isn't difficult at all.)

HylaFAX+ releases are, indeed, entirely independent from the releases 
occuring at hylafax.org.  However, to say that the two software 
developments are entirely independent is not accurate, in my view of 
things.  Although I no longer make commits to the hylafax.org repository 
I do continue to participate in HylaFAX development generally, and some 
work that I do on HylaFAX+ does eventually get incorporated into or 
otherwise inspire or prompt development in the hylafax.org repository.  
Similarly, work that gets done directly in the hylafax.org repository 
does usually get ported into HylaFAX+ (the exception being when it deals 
with divergent features - like the mail templating).  I don't see that 
as a completely independent relationship.

Lastly, I don't think that it's quite accurate to say that HylaFAX+ is 
not HylaFAX.  I think that many of its users would maintain that, 
indeed, it is.

Thanks,

Lee.

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