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Releasing software before kickoff

So, as I struggle through installing LabVIEW DVD's from the kit on all of the team laptops, and activating them all at home (since we don't have internet at our shop), while writing software and re-learning the library since a lot of stuff changed, I wonder:

Why do they have to release the software DVD's and updates on kickoff? What do they really gain?

It's not a mystery that the libraries will contain something similar to last year. We could ask any of the beta teams to show us exactly what changed, if we wanted to. However, there have been cases in the past where major library changes have happened (e.g. from 2009->2010 in LV, the basic framework was completely dropped and the refnum registries were added), forcing teams to re-learn a lot of what they used to know about the library, in the most precious time of the year (build season).

Also, with LV at least, the SW licenses from last year expire mid-build season and they switch to a different version of Labview every year, forcing us to uninstall and re-install everything on all of our computers, every year, during the first week or two of build season.

There just doesn't seem to be any reason to hide and encrypt the new software updates until kickoff. Releasing them earlier would give teams time to install and learn the new features (IMHO the library should be stable enough to not require significant changes each year, but for some reason they keep developing new major additions to it, making the learning issue worse).
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