On Mar 15, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:23:45 +0100, Signe Marie Sanne wrote:
So far I have used MetaCard and engine 2.6.6. The programs make use
of a portal stack (thanks to Sivakatirswami) which downloads/opens
the various educational programs. This downloading is done by http.
My questions to the group:
If the institute and the students are happy with the programs as
they are with no urgent need to change anything, for how many years
can we count on their functioning? 5? 10?
Well, that would depend on how often the computers they're running on
get upgraded with new operating systems, etc. If they never get
upgraded, they will last as long as the computer can last at the
institute. Unfortunately, if they *do* get upgraded, there's no way to
tell whether something in a new OS will cause a program to fail - for
example, the latest post about the Daylight Savings Time bug would
cause date-oriented applications to fail unless they are patched to
I agree with Ken. It would not hurt and would probably help to update
your materials to the newest version of rev. At a minimum, you should
re-build the "portal" standalone with the latest rev engine. In my
view that would help legacy stacks survive longer.
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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