jtaber wrote:
Well put - it tells me it's a kiss of death if the core development team isn't careful enough to deprecate properly. The same thing has happened to FLTK (c++) where the new version 2.0 is not backwards compatible enough to have people encouraged to upgrade. It's another confirmation to me that using another progressive codebase such as Rails is a better approach (not to mention productivity from a standardized framework). Wade is right in that Apple managed to move everyone over to OSX and now who even thinks about the old OS? And MS has in the past managed to do the same thing (though they broke enough with Vista to create a real upgrade backlash).
Therein lies an example of the other side of the backwards compatibility coin. Windows isn't notoriously unstable because they have bad programmers. It's unstable because of market demand. People want backwards compatibility. Microsoft gave them backwards compatibility, but that makes it much more difficult to keep the new stuff stable. However, Microsoft did not use the deprecate in this version, discontinue in the next method. I can play some Windows 3.x games on Windows XP.
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