MetaCard 2.4.3 alpha 2

[Sadhunathan Nadesan]

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| Actually you're better off having a newer OS as they are more likely
| to be able to run older apps than an older OS is to be able to run
| newer apps.

	I'm sure you are correct, in theory.  In practice what happened
	to me when I upgraded from RH 4.3 to 6.2, so many things were
	different, so many things broke, that it took me about 2 months
	of burning midnight oil.  Thus, I am gun shy.

| And to think they make jokes about "DLL Hell" on Win32 systems: The
| forced-upgrade problems recently on Linux are just about as bad ;-)

	Yeah.  20 years ago I used to think of Unix as an OS that kind
	of ran itself, you didn't really need the sort of staff that
	you did for a mainframe shop, but these days ....  oh, well,
	job security for sys admins.
| 
| Unfortunately no, and given the number of security holes in 6.X and
| the corresponding number of patches required to plug them IMHO you're
| better off just upgrading.  The only other option is to use 2.4.3 for
| graphical development and continue to use an older release for CGI.
| Not that much has changed in the language core and so you're unlikely
| to run into compatibility problems with this approach.

	Ok, that is about what I expected but thank you for confirming.
	I use Windows for GUI development and .. yes .. some things
	are a lot easier.  Even though we are an ABM shop (anything
	but microsoft) and even though the darn windoz machines crash
	a lot, I have to tip my hat to mr. gates for some other things.  

	So, anyway, I'll stick to 2.4 for my CGI scripts until the day
	I bite the bullet on a Linux upgrade. Thanks again.

| 
| PS: Please, bug reports and requests like this should go to
| support at metacard.com or bugs at metacard.com, not to the list...
| 
	Understood.  I thought the list members might like to hear
	about this.  Are there mail archives for the above?

	Regards,
	Sadhu