Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

[Peter Haworth]

I'm kinda surprised that someone would put 7.0 into a production
environment at this point - there isn't a GM release yet.

Pete
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On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Jerry Jensen <jhj at jhj.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
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