On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:27:35 +0100, Rasmus Fogh <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Dear Gary,
>
>Backwards compatibility a lot of work, because you have to make all kinds
>of special-case functions by hand for each language. We have not done
>backwards compatibility code for either the Java API you have (which was
>experimental) or the new one we are working on (which is still
>unfinished).
>
>For future data we will provide an officially supported system for
>backwards compatibility also for Java. We shall make it as smooth as
>possible to work with. Some may be provided with the Java API, some may be
>in the form of an upgrader in Python that we distribute separately, and
>some may be as a web service for upgrading.
Hi Thats sounds good but the idea of a web service for updates really
worries me, firewalls and all sorts of other things can cause problems (even
dead networking) usully at highly at inopertune moments...
On the python side have you looked at the possibility of merging it with the
java code via jython??
regards
gary
> How much we do with each
>method will depend on how difficult it is to write and distribute it.
>
>Yours,
>
>Rasmus
>
>
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