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Article #19540Re: LSC bug?
From: Wayne Pollock
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1987 00:41
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1987 00:41
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Whenever a product changes functionality, you have this problem. For software,
a reasonable approach is to add a menu choice (which is remembered until reset)
called something like "version 2.01 compatibility mode". Add plenty of clear
documentation about the differences, and encourage everyone to not use the
feature, as it will be dropped in future releases. And several updates later,
you can drop the feature.
This is reasonable because software usually has a live span measured in a small
number of years; allowing people to compile old software for a while is ok, and
sooner or later it will be rewritten (you should provide help for this, perhaps
supplying new routines that work the way the old ones did), or it will be dis-
carded.
By the way, just what is the current release of LSC? The latest version I have
is 2.01, do I need to upgrade?
Wayne Pollock, ...!{inhp4, cbatt}!cbosgd!osu-cis!apr!whp
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-cis!apr!whp From: whp@apr.UUCP (Wayne Pollock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: LSC bug? Message-ID: <280@apr.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 20:41:34 EDT Article-I.D.: apr.280 Posted: Sat Sep 26 20:41:34 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 12:05:23 EDT References: <3320019@hpcid.HP.COM> <2864@husc6.UUCP> <2867@husc6.UUCP> <2868@husc6.UUCP> Reply-To: whp@apr.UUCP (Wayne Pollock) Organization: APR, Columbus, OH Lines: 14 Keywords: time, LSC, libraries, bug Summary: Make it an option.