On 11/19/2014 06:21 AM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote: > > > > Perhaps it could be held as a carrot for enticing people to donate for > > the paid developer project... You know, as a perk? Stretch goal? Would > > that be a reasonable thing to do? > > Yes completely agreed. We will need help scabbing compat code back > in. It is a painful process and when lead from a team of unpaid > developers, often comes after the drastic changes have been made, but > that is what beta versions are for. :) > > The community must understand that 100% backwards compatibility (or > even 75%, 50%) will force the software to reach hard limits and will > eventually restrict growth. > > I think we will reach a happy medium as long as both sides of the > fence are willing to compromise. We really can't afford to lose our > developers or our community so we'll have to try to be mindful of each > others feelings when we make certain declarations. :) >
If we're going to add any compat code for 1.x projects, that should be done as an import plugin. That way we can confine any legacy code into a neat little box that doesn't clutter the rest of the codebase. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
