Re: A85: Usgard and some other stuff...

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Re: A85: Usgard and some other stuff...


At 12:40 1998-04-04 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Nathan Haines wrote:
>
>> So, I think it is important to Andi that Usgard is backwards-compatible.
>> Certainly all Usgard 1.x programs should be able to be run on any 1.x
>> version of Usgard.  As for a different major version number, the trend
seems
>> to be to force people to recompile or rewrite their programs for the new
>> shell... but I think that Andi will try his best to maintain
>> backwards-compatibility.  (It was attempted to retain this from 0.95 to
1.0,
>> but this proved impossible).
>
>Backwards-compatibilty but not forwards-compatibility correct?  Meaning
>something compiled for 1.5 can't run on 1.0.

There are actually no new features between 1.5 and 1.6, so Usg 1.5
will be able to run 1.6 programs. The same program header is used.
The difference is mostly optimization (in size). And to get
WinShell to work *sigh*

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