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APM Planner does not allow you to revert to a previous version/s of the firmware. #462

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?

Example: Running 1.1.13 APM Planner(very latest), with v2.24 ArduPlane 
firmware( a week or 2 old?), when I "upload" the latest ArduPlane firmware  ( 
v2.27 Alpha ) I have no idea if this update will "bork" my setup ( like 2.25 an 
2.26 both did in different ways), so I just want a way to "try out"  the latest 
firmware without 100% committing to it. 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I'd like the option to know if this is a "stable",  "tried and tested" , or 
"bleeding edge" version.     I am generally happy with "leading edge", but 
sometimes it just doesn't work, and I want a backup plan.  

I don't expect the GUI to offer *every* version, but even offering ( maybe) the 
last 5 versions, would help active user/s to diagnose and identify if it's a 
bug introduced in the "latest version" or a "recent version" for themselves, 
and correctly report that in tickets and/or forums. 

Thanks,
Buzz.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by davidb...@gmail.com on 27 Dec 2011 at 5:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by Meee...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2011 at 5:54

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
We don't want to support this, because it will lead to a huge increase in tech 
support complexity and user confusion. Our policy is that the Mission Planner 
is only for the latest code. For everything else, it is easy to load earlier 
versions of the code with Arduino.

Original comment by analogue...@gmail.com on 2 Jan 2012 at 8:42