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In article <4634@news.duke.edu> kdb@work5 (Kurt Bollacker) writes:
>  However, what will we lose when upgrading
> to 3.0.  According to NeXT we will lost the DSP development tools, the music
> kit, and maybe some other demos.  Any guesses as to whether these will work
> if transferred to a 3.0 environment?  Are there any less abovious things
> that we might be losing.  Calls to NeXT have not been very helpful.
> Inquiring minds want to know.

You don't necessarily *lose* anything.  Things that are not part of the 3.0  
release (e.g., Icon, DSP stuff) are -by default- deleted as part of the upgrade  
process.  However, it is very friendly about it, and you can search through the  
list of changes and tell it NOT to delete stuff.

The main thing you utterly lose is compatibilty *with NeXTstep 1.0*.  That is,  
the interim-compatiblity that 2.0 provided (e.g., self = [super new]  
everywhere) for 1.0 will not be in 3.0.  This can get you if you have really  
old software. It didn't affect anything I have, though, so there probably isn't  
much common software out there which is still 1.0 (NX_VOID comes to mind :-).

NeXTSTEP 3.0 is assuredly one of the least painful releases I have ever heard  
people talk about it.  Now if only they finally ship the darn thing...

- Ernie P.
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Ernest N. Prabhakar                  Caltech High Energy Physics
Member, League for Programming Freedom (league@prep.ai.mit.edu)
CaJUN President        NeXTMail:ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu
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