On Nov 1, 2005, at 15:55, Howard Lewis Ship wrote:
Well, if we can get enough of the community to say "Howard! Build us something better, and F**K backwards compatibility!" then I can do that, and maybe just a little bit more :-)
The reality is that if you want to keep serious commercial customers (those showcase apps that drive adoption), you need a fairly straightforward way to migrate to new platform releases. That could be by building a compatibility layer, by keeping "backward compatibility", or by a source-to-source translation mechanism.
Right now, the update for the largest app I'm working on would be a bit of a stretch, but is doable (and there are aspects of T4 that we could use to clean up some inelegant code.) But if the answer was "we can't upgrade, and there's no support anymore for what we are using", there'd be trouble.
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