What we said was that allowing the software to load a scene from a future version is very difficult. Adding feature that allows the software to save a file compatible with one version back is a much simpler problem. Much less to test, and no time machine required. On Apr 17, 2012 5:01 PM, "Eric Turman" <[email protected]> wrote:
> But I was originally suggesting the prior...the one that Luc-Eric said > that "the team could conceivably consider." > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Steven Caron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> nope, mixed up again... 2013 could in theory save a file knowing which >> features 2012 doesn't support, but 2012 would need to radically change how >> it loaded data from future (forward) versions and features it does not yet >> know about. brent was talking about the latter. >> >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Eric Turman <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Wait...I thought that Brent said that it was not trivial to implement a >>> 'save as previous version'; It sounded like it would take considerable >>> resources to implement that. >>> >>> > > > -- > > > > > -=T=- >
