On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 05:34:40PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > It is pretty crazy that we are considering removing backward > > compatability between 0.5pre2 and 0.5pre3. > 513 IS pre2. pre1 didn't work anyway.
But it isn't just pre1 we are losing backward compatability with, it is every single build before 513, many of which did work reasonably well. I really want to discourage use of the mandatory upgrade functionality, it is a nasty thing to do to our users unless we have a tremendously good reason (such a a serious security flaw). I know a number of extremely worth-while potential users of Freenet who are still using 0.3 simply because we periodically kill backward compatability in 0.4. If it is important that people upgrade, then by-all-means put a notice on the website, send an email to the mailing lists etc etc, but we need to only use the mandatory upgrade functionality in extremely rare circumstances. Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] Founder & Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Chief Executive Officer, Cematics LLC http://cematics.com/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/
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