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- Subject: Re: Remove from TMap
- Sent: 6/14/96 12:08 PM
- Received: 6/14/96 11:41 AM
- From: Greg Friedman, friedman@cognosis.com
- Reply-To: ODF Interest, ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
- To: OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List, ODF-Interest@CILabs.
-
- > Hi,
- >
- >
- > >It can be fixed in a future release, but will require adding another
- > >function to ODFLibrary, so parts using the revised maps won't work with
- > >ODFLibrary 1.0. It's really a shame to require a new release of
- > ODFLibrary
- > >to get this basic functionality.
- > >
- >
- > Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought SOM was supposed to solve
- > problems like this. .i.e. while parts that use the new FW_TMap require a
- > newer ODFLibrary, don't parts that are built for an older ODFLibrary work
- > just fine with a revised ODFLibrary. Isn't this the whole poing of SOM?
- > Having some parts require a newer library isn't a problem since they can
- > ship with the newer library as long as the new library doesn't break parts
- > built with the old library.
-
- Jim's point is that once we add a Remove function to a class in the shared
- library, parts that require the new function won't work with the old
- library. You are saying the same thing. Parts that worked with the 1.0
- library will continue to work with the new library (forward compatibility),
- but we won't have backward compatibility.
-
- BTW: The ODF shared library is not purely SOM. Many of the functions
- exported from the library are simple C functions.
-
- Greg.
-
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- Greg Friedman ODF Engineering
- Apple Computer
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