Puzzling print-driver bug
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2023 7:41 am
A week ago I rebuilt a year-old app for Windows using LC 9.6.9 on the assumption that this version of LC had corrected the bug involving default print drivers in recent versions of Windows 10/11. After code-signing it and the .msi installer, I found that all worked just fine (at least on my copy of Win10 via Mac Parallels). Great!
Then just the other day I did the same for another year-old app, but found in this case that the LC 9.6.9 standalone would not open! However, when I rebuilt it etc. using the LC 10 rc5, it opened and ran just fine.
I’m both puzzled and curious as to what it is that might cause one app to work with the presumed LC 9.6.9 fix, yet another to not. Has anyone identified anything specific to an app (e.g., inclusions) associated with vulnerability to the print-driver bug?
Frankly, I don’t care that much about those freeware apps, but I am about to market an app that must be reliable. (If the preview version of this app – which is available as an anonymous download – does not work reliably, no one is going to bother purchasing the full version.) I do know that the previous version had succumbed to the bug. (My first customer thankfully was savvy enough to follow my instruction to delete the default print drivers, but persons trying out the preview version are likely to just give up on it.)
I avoid employing rc versions of software – although I do understand the important contribution of those who do – but in this case waiting for the release of the final version of LC 10.0 will delay my marketing effort possibly by months.
What would you advise?
jeff k
Then just the other day I did the same for another year-old app, but found in this case that the LC 9.6.9 standalone would not open! However, when I rebuilt it etc. using the LC 10 rc5, it opened and ran just fine.
I’m both puzzled and curious as to what it is that might cause one app to work with the presumed LC 9.6.9 fix, yet another to not. Has anyone identified anything specific to an app (e.g., inclusions) associated with vulnerability to the print-driver bug?
Frankly, I don’t care that much about those freeware apps, but I am about to market an app that must be reliable. (If the preview version of this app – which is available as an anonymous download – does not work reliably, no one is going to bother purchasing the full version.) I do know that the previous version had succumbed to the bug. (My first customer thankfully was savvy enough to follow my instruction to delete the default print drivers, but persons trying out the preview version are likely to just give up on it.)
I avoid employing rc versions of software – although I do understand the important contribution of those who do – but in this case waiting for the release of the final version of LC 10.0 will delay my marketing effort possibly by months.
What would you advise?
jeff k