[openbeos] Re: BFS and encryption.
- From: David Sowsy <dsowsy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:50:54 -0500 (EST)
> The BeOS 'as a whole' has been pretty idle, and developers
> still active won't mind making the necessary changes to
> cater for the broken compatibility - there aren't many of
> them to begin with.
Bzzt. Wrong.
Do you remember how many apps broke from the transition of R4 to R5,
because both the file system and the operating system (Media Kit, and
others) were moving targets? Creating too many moving targets
will make things difficult all around. The *nice* thing about
BeOS right now is that is NOT a moving target. BTW, you might
want to read "The Invisible Computer" and understand the cycle
of the early adopter through tech laggard.
If you want to do things right, embrace and extend. Support the existing
binary format for plenty of time until "newer" apps arrive to take their
place. If you want to design a better binary format, fine, but leave an
adequate time window for phasing out the old format.
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