Am Donnerstag, 19. Dezember 2013, 11:43:13 schrieb Nicolas Évrard: > * Axel Braun [2013-12-19 09:02 +0100]: > >Hmmmm...not much of a discussion up to now. > > > >Am Samstag, 14. Dezember 2013, 15:19:58 schrieb Cédric Krier: > >> > For Tryton, a 3.0 GUI does not connect to a Tryton-Server 2.8 :-( > >> > Additionally, when you upgrade from 2.8 to a 3.0 client all your > >> > settings are gone (as they are saved in > >> > ~/.config/tryton/<version> ) > >> > > >> > I feel this is an unnecessary limitation. An up-to-date client > >> > should connect to an older server. (or we should have a full > >> > featured webclient to overcome this...) > >> > > >> > What do you think? > >> > >> I'm strictly against being backward compatible, it kills progress, > >> development and prevents to write good quality code. > > > >In some extend I agree with your point. But we do not want to > >conserve design flaws for the sake of compatibility, like the A20 > >Gate [1] was. That was a night mare. > > > >Tryton has some maturity in between, and on the frontend you mostly > >add functionality. Of course the development focus should not be to > >be compatible to ancient version. > > > >On the other hand, there is no rationale to be version compatible > >unless there is really a hard reason to it. Having the latest GUI > >connecting to one or two previous versions would at least ease the > >life of the end user. > > If you want you can install concurrent version together and through a > small script run the correct one. This kind of setup will obviously > never be part of Tryton, but it is doable.
..but probably not really end-user-applicable...
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