| From: | Kolbj�rn Barmen |
| Date: | 3 May 2001 at 03:13:37 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: St. Louis? |
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Patryk [iso-8859-2] £ogiewa wrote:
> Hello Tim
>
> >>>> Forcing people to upgrade by breaking things and preventing older
> >>>> things from working is Micro$oft's way.
> >
> >>> I'm not saying it's a brilliant way of doing things, but it's a fact
> >>> people have to face. Applications have to be coded to work with the
> >>> operating system, and that's how it's down. The operating system is
> >>> the only /official/ way to do things.
> >
> >> Being official., there is a responsibility to maintain backwards
> >> compatibility. You can't simply release an upgrade that breaks
> >> everyone else's software and say "tough, this is the official way
> >> now".
> >
> > Agreed that they "shouldn't," but once they've done the dirty deed,
> > programmers have no choice. They either produce software that's compliant
> > with the current OS, or non-compliant; and risk having people ignore using
> > it.
>
> There _is_ a choice: programmers ignore "current OS" and hence it will get
> NO applications support. Then "they" learn the lesson and either produce
> new OS versions that "are compliant, or non-compliant and risk having other
> people (not only programmers) ignore using it". ;-)
Well, obviously OS3.1 was perfect for everyone, so why upgrade at all?
Heck, what whining... on other OSes slight upgrades require recompile
and major tweaking, I dont grasp what the fuzz is all about.
-- kolla