Monday, December 16, 2013

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Comment on Compatibility by Patrick Fromberg

I agree with Nicol Bola that backward compatibility should be achieved with upgrade tools for the old code. That qualifies as easy enough migration path.

I want to remind that backward compatibility is mostly a sacrifice to vendors that are not willing to recompile their code anyway (with or without tool aid) and thus force you to use an old compiler too if you link against their DLLs for e.g. I have three versions of Visual Studio installed as a consequence of such antisocial behavior.

But the good vendors are probably thankful to get a free check and cleanup of their code and not raise compatibility complaints.

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