Is WebPACK 6.1 generally broken, and what of 6.2?

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Hi:As I understand it, the Impact tool doesn't work with Parallel IV cables, which my experience confirms.Also, I had a plethora of other problems when I attempted to upgrade to 6.1:1.  The fitter takes much longer to do its thing, even to fit a singleAND gate takes a lengthy wait.2. The thing forces me to read HTML reports, which take a long time togenerate.  And it seems to have to run some stupid java applet.  I suppose there may be a way to turn this off, but it was very annoying.3.  If I close the HTML report, it removes all the green checkmarks fromthe completed processes, and so when I go to configure devices, it hasto fit all over again!Because of all this, I have simply ignored 6.1 and have been using 5.2, which works.The question really is, should I bother to try 6.2 ?Good day!-- ____________________________________Christopher R. CarlenPrincipal Laser/Optical TechnologistSandia National Laboratories CA USA

Kasper Pedersen · Accepted Answer

..snipping problems..5.2,If your design fits and works as expected, I'd say don't getupdate-happy just yet.We have a CoolRunner XPLA design that requires 3 MC more in 6+ than 5.2(and thus won't fit), even after we went over the settings ensuring theywere identical. Always archive the required software with the project..Another annoying thing in 6.2 is that apparently they haven't tried thejava on a machine with regional settings set to Danish. Danish uses ','as decimal separator and '.' as thousands separator, they haven'thandled that, and the java code throws a conversion error at the end ofthe fitter run./Kasper

Chris Carlen · Answer

Indeed.  Good advice.Thanks for the input!-- _____________________Christopher R. CarlenSuse 8.1 Linux 2.4.19

Is WebPACK 6.1 generally broken, and what of 6.2?

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