Hi Josiah > A compounding factor is that devs of older stuff are often NOT around to fix > for compliance with new. > The issue is the users who relied on what they thought were kosher tools that > STOP working that the author won't fix.
Indeed. > Jeremy: | do plan to update the release note with a more prominent warning > of the impact of this change. > > Good! IMHO, it might also be worth mentioning that their tool of concern > would continue to run fine under previous versions of TW. > For working apps mostly it is NOT needed you upgrade! > (("Upgradeitis" is a serious modern disease. :-)) >From the core perspective we really want people to upgrade actively used wikis >to each new version because it’s expensive and complex to offer support for >old versions. For example, if we had a user on v5.1.23 who was holding back >updating to v5.2.0 then that user wouldn’t be able to benefit from bug fixes >in subsequent releases. If they reported a bug that was then fixed by the core >team they wouldn’t be able to get the fix without updating. Best wishes Jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5FED7921-F486-4CB1-9EF1-60A674723458%40gmail.com.