6.5 Problem

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 02:22:32 EST 2013


In the Livecode Kickstarter Roadmap there is a point made that all
new versions of Livecode must be completely backward compatible.

In light of "grumps and bumps" with recent supposedly finished releases
I am wondering how backward compatible they really are.

If the price of new features is breaking those we have come to depend upon
then that price is too high.

What this might do is result in an awful lot of people continuing to use 
earlier versions
and not stumping up the money for new commercial versions. This will 
result in a
wee problem in RunRev's bank account.

Perhaps "the road ahead" (sorry, couldn't resist that one) is for dp and 
rc releases
to be released with a list of what RunRev would like beta-testing 
end-users to test
rather than just a list of bugs that have been (?) ironed out since the 
previous release.

Richmond.

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Oh, and by the way, if anyone could point me to a Mac Classic version of 
2.0.1 and
2.6.1 I should be most grateful.

Frankly moving image files from Bryce 4 and Poser 4 back and forth between
the G3 running Mac OS 9 and the Optiplex 745 running Ubuntustudio 13.10
is a bit of a fag.  RR/LC 1.1.1 is, quite, cutting the mustard on the G3.

As all versions of RR/LC prior to version 2.1 were usable on a 
script-limit basis
I cannot see why RunRev would object to making them available to anybody
who might want them for the odd "walk on the wild side."




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