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[thunder_theo Friend thunder_theoJoin date: December 2015Posts: 9Downloads:13Uploads:1 Thanks: 1 Thanked: 3 times in 3 posts]

#1003157

JoomlArt Extensions Manager refernces to version : 1.0.0 alpha2 [new! 2016-12-15] as being a new version of JA Builder and its components. When (exidently) following tru on updating all found updates, it installs this alpha version, causing problems with existing and new pages (no text editing posible).

Walking tru the forum shows some problems that may originate from this problem (those users may have used the update function of JoomlArt Extensions Manager and thereoff now use a wrong version causing these problems.

With kind regards, Theo

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[Arvind Chauhan Moderator Arvind ChauhanJoin date: September 2014Posts: 3835Downloads:74Uploads:92 Thanks: 1240 Thanked: 1334 times in 848 posts]

#1003417

Hi @thunder_theo,

We will check the issue, this could be issue of JA Extension Manager. For now, to upgrade JA Builder, you just download latest package and install to your site so the new version will override old version and the content you did will not be lost.

Regards.

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1. thunder_theo

[thunder_theo Friend thunder_theoJoin date: December 2015Posts: 9Downloads:13Uploads:1 Thanks: 1 Thanked: 3 times in 3 posts]

#1003506

That’s what I adviced to users to and it works okay.

The problem seams to ly in the way the extention manager compairs version numbers. Both versions start with 1.0.0 followed by Alpha or Beta. Because A comes for B in sortorder, it finds that the Alpha version is newer.

Maybe for the next Beta update it’s better to call it’s version number: 1.0.1. Beta2. This way the extention manager will reconnise it as a newer version.

Even better would be not using ‘Beta’ in the version number, but only use it in the name. Alpha versions will then become: 1.0.0.0 and 1.0.0.1 Beta versions will then become : 1.0.1.0 and 1.0.1.1 and so on Gamma version will become : 1.0.2.0 and 1.0.2.1 and so on and so on till a maximum of 9 test levels. And the first stable release will become: 1.1.0.0 and so on

With kind regards, Theo

p.s.
An often used version system is a version code made up of 4 positions: V.R.U.PPPP.
V = the main version.
R = release number of this version (0 = test versions, >0 is release version)
U = if R > 0 then U is full update number for this release (if any), if R = 0 then U = test level for this version.
PPPP = if R > 0 then PPPP is Patch number for this update till the next full update, if R = 0 then PPPP is next test level patch or nightly build version.

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1. Arvind Chauhan

[Arvind Chauhan Moderator Arvind ChauhanJoin date: September 2014Posts: 3835Downloads:74Uploads:92 Thanks: 1240 Thanked: 1334 times in 848 posts]

#1003741

Thanks a lot for your suggestion, we will forward this to the development team.

Regards.

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