Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

[Jerry Jensen]

On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:11 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 9/9/2014, 3:58 PM, larry at significantplanet.org wrote:
>> LC seems to be following the same rule of business as Microsoft - "Let's
>> not worry too much about making our new stuff backward compatible with
>> the old stuff.  What do we care if people cannot run their old stuff
>> anymore?"
> 
> I'm not sure why you'd say this. Historically it hasn't ever been so.
> 
> RR has been consistently asking for feedback and has said repeatedly that they want to know about everything that doesn't work so they can fix it. They have promised backward compatibility, and all previous versions have aimed for that too. There's a reason Richard Gaskin keeps hammering at us to report everything.

I'd also point out that RR are putting up with the hassle of parallel fixes to 6.7 and 7.0. Some things inevitably had to change in 7.0. With 6.7 people who would otherwise have broken can take advantage of the latest improvements and bug fixes done in parallel to 6.7 and 7.0. 

.Jerry