| From: | Oliver Esberger |
| Date: | 3 May 2001 at 01:37:15 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: St. Louis? |
Am Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2001 um 01:08 schrieb Patryk £ogiewa:
>>> 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".
But it does not break anything! Opus5 has exactly the same features under
OS3.9 as it has under 3.1. It just does not support the NEW features, but
it is still as useful as before.
>> 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". ;-)
Hm, I don't think GPSoft would "ignore" OS3.9 if Opus5/Amiga was still in
active development, and there are obviously other reasons why it is
discontinued.