Legacy stack woes II -- Restated

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Jun 8 11:30:27 EDT 2007


Rob Cozens wrote:
>>Consider the number of potentially affected users:  the subset of 
>>Rev users still using only older versions,
> 
> If the issue were simply that developers have not chosen to upgrade 
> to current-format versions, I would ignore the issue and release all 
> stacks in the current format.
> 
> However, my understanding is that RunRev developers on Linux 
> platforms do not have a current-stack-format version option.  If I am 
> wrong, then your point is well taken; if I am correct, I feel than an 
> open source package like SDB might be best received by developers 
> using an open source platform, and therefore Legacy-format is a must 
> until Linux developers have another option..

In a few weeks that'll go away too.

But in the meantime, I think you hit the nail on the head in your last 
post:  just set it up for both versions and include what's needed for both.

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  Richard Gaskin
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