> From: Melchior FRANZ > > But these points wouldn't explain why the old commands would have had to go. > I made clear at several occasions (twice in the thread, once in the cvs log) > that I would be willing to add the three commands (not the depreciated ones) > again if people think they should remain available. If there are good > reasons, that is. You didn't bother to mention a single one. Nostalgia > doesn't count. FlightGear shouldn't become a museum -- a collection of dead > code. That's what the Attic/ is for. Now my question is: > > Does the old code have to be kept? > > I'm not pissed if I'm asked to add new commands again. But it shouldn't > be a waste of time if possible. >
It is time consuming and maybe not necessary (ie waste of time), but maybe someone cares even if they are not reading the discussion. The second most neglected item (after documentation) in the OSS world is backwards compatibility. Please understand that by mentioning this I do not wish to imply that you are doing anything wrong or different than anyone else. Thanks for the reply! Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
