24 May
2005
24 May
'05
12:24 p.m.
On May 24, 2005, at 6:45 AM, David Abrahams wrote:
Martin Bonner <martin.bonner@pitechnology.com> writes:
Is it being suggested that "adding backwards compatibility" is a new feature, as opposed to fixing a bug?
I think it will be /enormously/ damaging to Boost's reputation for professional quality software if it is not possible to read a 1.32 archive with 1.33. It doesn't take long to build a reputation for "you can never read a file from old versions", and FOREVER to get rid of it.
Yeah, I think this probably falls under "bug fixing," or at least "critical feature without which we had better not ship."
Yes, it's a bug. I've already given Robert the go-ahead to fix it for 1.33.0. Doug