Re: SCIFIO Unusable

Posted by Michael Doube-4 on Aug 14, 2014; 4:46pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/SCIFIO-Unusable-tp5009195p5009208.html

Dear ImageJ/Fiji-ers

> is a beta product and right now it's a step backwards
> from classic ImageJ functionality. We enabled it by default

How is it a coherent strategy to enable beta functionality by default, and foist it upon end users?

Is there any plan to have a 'stable' branch of ImageJ2, from which ordinary users can update with some degree of certainty that stuff won't break, and a beta branch for those who like to try the new stuff which might break, and a dev branch for the devs and bug testers, where stuff really is half-broken/half-built most of the time? I realise that IJ2 is still in relatively unstable release-candidate times, but it would be nice to know what future plans may be.

My single biggest concern about Fiji is that updates break stuff for users far too often. Sometimes the screams of pain and frustration make it to the mailing list, but I suspect that often they disappear, unheard, in the dark corners of imaging labs around the world. I really hope that as ImageJ2 matures, it adopts a conservative approach to updating userland installations - i.e. only sending stuff to the updater once it's pretty well hardened.

Michael




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