So many repo formats

[Matthieu Moy]

Gour <gour at mail.inet.hr> writes:

>>>>>> "John" == John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
>
> Hello John,
>
> John>I think you underestimate the value of compatibility. I still have
> John> branches laying around from a while ago. 2 years isn't really that
> John> long to want to come back to hack on some software you didn't need
> John> to work on in the meantime.
>
> Hmm, many people are moving from Win95, to Win98, to Win2k, WinXP
> etc. and in due course of time support for some of those old OS-es
> vanish.

But AFAIK, WinXP is still able to execute 15 year-old MS-DOS binaries,
And MS supports each of their OS for at least 5 years.

So I don't think the analogy plays in favor of breaking compatibility.

-- 
Matthieu