1 Jun
2009
1 Jun
'09
3:54 a.m.
AMDG Robert Ramey wrote:
Sohail Somani wrote:
Just typing out loud: Forward compatibility is the ability to load an archive with a version of 4 into an application with a version of 3.
To me forward compatability is he ability to create a version 3 archive with a version 4 program. Hmmm - now that I read that, it doesn't look right. I guess that should be called "complete" backward compatibility. I don't see how it is possible while writing version 3 progam to know what version 4 is going to save.
It would be possible in special cases. For example, the version 4 archive could add information that the version 3 program knows to skip somehow. In Christ, Steven Watanabe