On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:51 PM, "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote: > General network health and user security _requires_ periodic upgrades > in any case, and will for the foreseeable future. The whole notion > that old versions will _stop working_ would be a pretty good thing at > this point in bitcoin's existence, judging by the high number of pre- > .24 listeners still reported.
Backward-compatibility is valuable. I believe version 0.1 will still more or less work on the current network. This is a real selling point for Bitcoin: the code is solid enough that even 2-year-old clients are still working. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
