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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 14:28:16 -0700
From: "Christian A. Ratliff" <ratlifc@alexande.ctron.com>
Subject: Re: External files & allowable contributions
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Sep 1993 14:03:47 EDT."
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> Guaranteeing that every release is 100% backward comapatible will be extremely
> difficult, I think, and will eventually hinder the kit's development. Perhaps
> we should guarantee backward compatibility in minor releases, but reserve the
> right to make non-backward compatible changes in major (full integer) releases.
>
What then will we do about applications that need two different revisions of
and object simultaneously? Should there be a capability for the MiscKit tree to
have a 'revision level' as an early branch? "$MISCKITHOME/$REV/$OBJECT" ??
This could have the potential advantage of supporting both an 'installed'
Kit and a 'beta revision' of the Kit for developers and beta-testers.
> I would hate to be in the position of using a crufty old piece of code simply
> in order to maintain 100% backward compatibility.
>
No kidding. I should think that the weight that backward compatibility would add
to each object would deter the users of the Kit as well.
later,
christian
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Christian Ratliff \ clotho, atropos, lachesis, paraguay, uruguay,
<ratlifc@ctron.com> / leto, laba, vesta, hermes, prometheus, edi,
Sales Systems Administrator \ indikos, grendel, argent, indikos, aardvark,
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