Beta Versions

Is there any way of determining which specific customers are informed of specific updates?

i.e if you have customers a,b,c,d and e, and you wish to roll out a beta version and customer c is your beta customer could anything be done to ensure only that customer (customer c) gets notification of updated software?

Or is it only one size fits all?

Regards

Simon

We plan to add this to wyBuild in the near future.

In the meantime it's "one size fits all". However, there is a hacky way you could implement this if you truly need it.

Is there a time frame for "near feature" (months, years, decades ) ?

Thanks,Marcel

We don't like to give estimated dates anymore because some customers get enraged if we miss them by a couple of weeks (which is more often the case than not). The computer software business is a more intellectual pursuit than say the a tire manufacturing business. Where in the tire industry you'll know just how many tires you'll have at the end of the day, in the software industry the amount of "features" you'll have at the end of a month is more ephemeral.

That being said, "update channels" are a part of our strategy, and this has higher priority than most features. Our goal is to have this done before year's end.

I have a button in my application, Universe Sandbox, to check for the 'release candidate' version which looks for a custom wys file:

AutomaticUpdate.wyUpdateCommandline = "-server=""http://yoursever.com/wyserver-rc.wys"""

I create my update and copy the wyserver file to wyserver-rc. I upload all of the wyu files and the wyserver-rc file only. I post on my forums when the release candidate is out and they can click the button which looks for an updated wyserver-rc file, the automatic search for the wyserver file continues to report that no update is available. Once I've determined that the release candidate is working, I can upload the original wyserver file to update everyone else.

If you had someway of determining which user was a, b, or c, your software could look for different wys files.

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