Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Re: XCode 2.1

[Timothy C. <da...@ma...>]

On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Br'fin wrote:


> Note to ourselves. Now is probably a good time to serialize saved  
> files since I didn't already do that. (My bad for thinking that  
> transferring saved files tween Mac and anything else wouldn't be  
> supported and now having it cause future problems transferring  
> tween Macs)
>
> Given the lack of foresight, and with the note that existing M2  
> saved games were never supported, just M2 films. When I code new  
> serialized saved games, do I...
>     1. ...avoid all support for existing 0.3 saved games
>     2. ...acknowledge and don't run existing 0.3 saved games
>     3. ...acknowledge and support older 0.3 saved games as well as  
> the new ones?
>
> I admit the spread of AM is potentially low enough that we could  
> get away with 1.
>

I'd say go with option 1.  Not only is the spread very low, but it's  
self-professedly an extremely basic alpha-level version.  Anyone who  
expects any kind of serious forward compatibility from 0.3 isn't  
thinking too clearly.

I'd say that until we have most of the fundamentals in place for AM,  
don't worry about breaking previous versions of AM.  And it might be  
best not to worry about breaking compatibility with M2, either, until  
we get things settled down.  At least, if it's a kind of  
compatibility that we can put back in later, after breaking it...

Timothy Collett