> I must come from a different generation of programmers. (1) You are right > about absolute paths being bad form. (2) The older apps were not all coded > that way... (3) Some of my version 5 BeOS installs her in Oklahoma as Web > Servers are waiting and tired of waiting, (4) A Workaround is just patching > the problem. (5) The BE Book talks about solutions to using hard paths (has > since the '90's) that are not currently in use. (6) While change is Good, > Change for change sake fixes what isn't broken. (7) Don't throw away what > works (8) If your change causes something that works to break there is > something wrong with the change. > To reinvent the wheel is costly and time consuming. Don't waste the money > that's been donated, fixing what was working for the sake of might be > better. > I'll try to explain better the last time. I'm not against a compat package, i'm against having it enabled by default, for the reasons i explained before.