Stack file format change in 2.7 - BACK UP!

[Thomas McGrath III]

Thanks J,

This does clear things up for me. It is totally understandable now  
why they need to upgrade the version number and that it is normal too.

Thanks

Tom

On Feb 23, 2006, at 6:53 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Rob Cozens wrote:
>> Jacque, et al:
>>> It isn't any different than when HyperCard made the change
>> Unless memory fails me, yes it is: that upgrade was free to owners  
>> of the previous version.
>
> I believe the 2.x update happened when HC was moved to Claris and  
> we had to start buying our copies. At any rate, in order to provide  
> the new 2.7 features, the file format had to be expanded. There was  
> no room left in the old format to do what was needed. Scott Raney  
> had to do the same thing several times in MetaCard too, and his  
> updates were not free. I never saw any complaints about it; of  
> course, that was a somewhat different user base than we have here now.
>
>> Do you intend to distribute all future stacks you release publicly  
>> in v.2.7+ and leave people who continue to work in v<2.7 out in  
>> the cold?
>
> I rarely release this kind of stack (almost all my work is NDA) but  
> if I did, I would save stacks in 2.6 format for at least a while.  
> It's a minor thing.
>
>> Does anyone but moi feel it's ironic that RunRev v2.7 can create  
>> apps for "Classic" Mac OS, which has been off the market for  
>> years, but can't create a file readable by RunRev v2.6, which was  
>> being distributed a few weeks ago?
>
> I'm not sure what else they could have done. The old file format  
> was full and needed to be extended. What would a 2.6 engine do when  
> it hit all the new code in a 2.7 file?
>
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