[haiku-commits] Re: r40187 - haiku/trunk/src/preferences/screen
- From: Philippe Houdoin <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:36:27 +0100
> If changing a signature might cause trouble with
> older apps, just don't change it.
The issue is *how* to know which signature could be called by older apps...
Theorically, any application ever written for BeOS R5 could be using
one or more BeOS R5 system's apps signatures.
Wait, I said theorically !
;-)
> It's not like a lot of people will ever
> see the signatures anyway.
Indeed, they won't see it. What they could see, though, is an app
doing absolutly nothing (or at best showing a alert : *app* not
found/could not be launched) when some feature is invoked by the user.
Anyway, I agree, it's bit overkill, in particular considering the
amount of older apps that we can't fix or that we didn't have yet
*ported* to Haiku. I guess it's far easier to help moving these apps
to Haiku than bending backward that much for pure R5 apps
interoperability.
Bye.
Philippe.
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