MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 10/1/2010 16:07, Phillip Jones told the world:
Philip Chee wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:41:01 +0100, Ray_Net wrote:
Thanks for this clear answer ... But we don't like to chenge, change and
change again the versions .... this looks like Linux people compiling
the kernel each month ... may be not this frequency, however we prefer
to use a product instead of installing, installing .. again and again.
Fortunately now that we have made the big move from the old XPFE backend
to the new toolkit, subsequent upgrades won't be as traumatic. If things
work out upgrades will be as seamless as Firefox upgrades. For one thing
there will not be any more profile migrations.
Phil
You mean if the is a 3, 4, 5, 6 and so on of SM That it will just read
your current Profiles?? If so that would be wonderful Just install the
new application and star right where you left off.
Well, let me put it this way: SM now is using the same infrastructure as
Firefox and Thunderbird, and plans on keeping doing so.
If FF+TB ever decide to change their profiles substantially so that a
profile migration will be necessary, *they* will have to solve that
headache first. And it will be a *big* headache, since there are
hundreds of millions of Firefox users out there. Personally, I think
they will try to find ways to make it work with the current profiles.
Even if a migration is needed, by the time the need to migrate reaches
Seamonkey (SM can wait a few months to a year before migrating without
much of a problem) the migrating subroutines will be very well debugged.
So, while there *might* be future profile migrations some time in the
far future (although none in the perceived horizon), it should be way
less traumatic than this one.
Hurray! No more Worrying about something breaking (fingers and toes, and
legs, Crossed).
--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net http://www.vpea.org
mailto:pjon...@kimbanet.com
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