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[deedplot]

I am new to Open Dental but an old guy to machine language, assembly language, C, C++ and after a long void, back into C# to improve what is available to my dental office as well as others.

The question I have concerns the source code version that I downloaded through the website vs the version that I have that is the current live one that is installed on my test computer. Does anybody know if the downloaded source code is up to date with the live version (as opposed to the trial version)?

Thanks

[drtech]

the source code is always up to date if you stay on the current branch. opendental13.1 is the current beta production branch. If you stick with the SVN head, then you are using the development version and do NOT use that in a LIVE setting ....only with trial data, b/c it will not upgrade the date as development occurs.

[jsalmon]

In short, the source code will always be ahead of the live versions (as long as you update frequently like David suggests). Meaning that when we "commit" a bug fix, you could update your source code and be using the fix before it gets "released" to the public. That would be the only benefit that I could foresee other than other obvious programming reasons.