On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Hugo van der Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > It seems the recent debate with wxGTK shows an issue that is frequently > recurring. > > Take wxGTK 2.8 for example. If you need 2.6 then having 2.8 intalled is > not going to help you. > > While this may not be possible for all packages at least some of these > issues could be solved if at the time there is a version jump a backward > compatibility package is created. >
Or better yet, a mandate that backwards compatibility be preserved unless there is a really good, solid reason to break it, with fundamental development packages like wxGTK and other library packages that lots of other programs, applications and users depend on. I've been programming computers for a living for almost 29 years, and I have yet to see a good reason for breaking backward compatibility in software other than 1) the hardware platform is radically different, or 2) moving from M$ to Linux, er, I mean, changing base OSs. mhr _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
