Walter Bright, el 8 de January a las 00:57 me escribiste: > On 1/7/2013 8:17 PM, Pierre Rouleau wrote: > >And now I understand that D1 is no longer officially supported. If I > >understand > >properly D1 first release was 6 years ago. Lets assume I would have started > >a > >product development with it say 2 years ago because it was deemed relatively > >stable then. And now I want to support 64-bit Windows and my customers are > >starting to ask for Windows-8 support. Or some other things gets in the way > >(a > >bug somewhere, Windows 9 getting released sooner because Windows 8 is not as > >popular as Microsoft would have hoped.) What would be my alternatives? Port > >all > >the code to D2? Is this what will happen to D2? I'd like to know before I > >commit people and convince others. > > The moment D1 was stabilized, work began on D2. It was always > understood that D2 was the future, and D1 was the stable version. > Supporting it for 6 years is a pretty long time in the software > business. > > At some point, you'll need to make a decision: > > 1. move to D2 > > 2. merge things from D2 into the D1 you've forked
What about licensing issues, is it even legal to for D1's backend? I mean, I don't mind doing it personally, because I believe I won't have any problems. But company lawyers don't think so positively :) -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Es erróneo pensar que el repollo es una afirmación de personalidad del volátil, es una verdura, es una verdura. -- Ricardo Vaporeso
