Don't offend me in any way. I totally understand you. Again maybe my poor English sent wrong impression.
As I said *personally IF I am last Harbour user* I would drop a lot of legacy, but I never would that thinking about the whole community. []'s Maniero 2010/5/14 Viktor Szakáts <harbour...@syenar.hu> > > It wasn't my intention make you reply that, I just do a statement trying > to wide the view about the problem. As I wrote I completely agree about the > whole decision and specially your last paragraphs as below. Maybe my poor > English have been confusing about my message. > > Sorry if message seemed to offend you, I didn't mean > it that way, and any opinion or reaction (like yours) > which leads toward any direction is always useful > to hear and very much welcome. I tried to > reiterate on the key problems, in the hope this time > it gets a reception (again not just by you, but > everyone interested in this or pushing the problem). > > BTW, back to dropping "legacy" stuff is an > interesting topic, but at the same time the > _hottest potato_. As time goes by we can revisit > such topics, since probably it won't make sense > to support f.e. MS-DOS or Windows 95 ten years > from now, or there will be a point where Clipper > cross-compatibility won't be a real-life issue > anymore, since there won't be any real systems > running MS-DOS apps. We will see it in the future, > and we will see what are those parts which we > can benefit from by revising them. F.e. 8.3 > naming limit, or non-UNICODE Windows builds, or > building Harbour on MS-DOS hosts, to mention > some of these from recent times, and there are > language-related items here as well. For sure > for now all of these seem too early to address, > and usually stir a lot of heat, that's why we > should rather concentrate on stuff which is > inline with our current goals and possibilities. > > Viktor > > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) > Harbour@harbour-project.org > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour >
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