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. 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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On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Gary Thompson wrote:
> Wayne Boucher wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I suspect (although there seems to be lots of error messages there!) that
> > what is happening here is that the Java API has not been included with
> > backwards compatibility code. It was just not something that was going to
> > be added (it's a lot of work) for something that was not being used that
> > much. So the recommendation here is that you open up this project in the
> > equivalent Python API and then do a "save all" option to update all the
> > project files to the latest release. Then hopefully that error message
> > will go away (but I'm sure you'll find other problems). (Well, I would
> > recommend, as always, to backup the project first before you do a
> > "saveAll".)
> >
> > You might have noticed that Analysis does not have a "save all" option.
> > What you can do in Analysis is to do the following at the command line:
> >
> >
> Ok I will give it a go...
>
> does this mean there will always be compatability problems with the java
> api unless it has been saved by the latest version of analysis etc?....
>
> regards
> gary
>
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