Posted by Drazen Gemic on 02/18/07 20:03

On Feb 18, 6:01 pm, Kimmo Laine <s...@outolempi.net> wrote:

> Oliver didn't claim that there are *no* incompatibility issues between 4
> and 5 because there are and everybody knows that. All he meant was that
> there are *less* of them between 4 and 5 than between 4.3 and 4.4.
>

Well, he also said that incompatibility is a myth. But, that was
not the question, anyway. Since we are chatting, I'll reveal why I am
asking it. It is a strange story, indeed.

I have a customer that refuses to upgrade application in a way that it
could
handle past years. They are cloning the database and the application
code and
use it as archive. Database name, username and password are defined in
a single
file, which makes that easy. To make things worse, archived versions
are mutually similar,
but not identical. They probably think that the solution is
cheap......

What am I trying to explain them is that they will have to upgrade
someday,
and I am not willing to upgrade unknown number of versions.

DG

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