Re: How much backwards compatibility ?

[Jon K Hellan <hellan acm org>]

Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org> writes:

> While testing the minor change to the xml that I mentioed previously
> I noticed that the change is actually backwards compatible for file
> i/o.  However, we use the same format for inter-process copy/paste
> where it would not be backwards compatible.
>
> So older versions would be able to read files from > 1.0.3
> but not receive a paste from the clipboard.  Should we worry about
> this ?

Not a problem, I think. If an old version needs to receive data from
a new one, they can always exchange a file.

Jon Kåre