cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c

[Paul Richards]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:50:44PM +0100, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:19:18PM +0000, Paul Richards wrote:
> # On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:06:16PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> # > Paul Richards <paul at originative.co.uk> writes:
> # > > Imagine something like Photoshop being written on the most recent
> # > > version of Mac OS X and finding that compatibility only worked
> # > > forward.  That would mean that most users out there would have to
> # > > upgrade their OS in order to use the most recent version of Photoshop!
> # > 
> # > Yes, that is usually how it goes.
> # 
> # I don't believe it does. Can anyone provide real world examples of
> # this happening that we can consider?
> 
> SunOS 4^WSolaris 1 vs Solaris 2 and the SparcWorks compiler suite? SunOS
> 4 users had to make do with the much inferior acc ("ansi c compiler").
> Yes, that was long ago, but not unheard of, even in the commercial world.

We're not talking about compatibility across major versions, only
within the lifetime of a stable branch.

-- 
Paul Richards