From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Jul 12 23:29:41 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de From: Maurits van de Kamp Organization: Revee Creative Productions To: mint@fishpool.com Subject: [MiNT] Same old new-developments-story Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:27:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200507122327.08733.maurits@bassment.nu> X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: maurits@bassment.nu Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, NEW_DOMAIN_EXTENSIONS X-Spam-Level: So, we can either stick to what we have and don't develop anything on the AES side of things (or anywhere else for that matter) so that users of old no longer developed OSes will not be confronted with new software that they can't run. (In fact, they most likely won't be confronted with new software at all). Or we can develop something new like AES extensions and if people want to stick to old OS versions, well they can't use it, but they won't be too worried about that anyway. If a user wants new stuff, he upgrades. If he wants to stick to old stuff, he does just that. MiNT/XaAES is the only way forward anyway, users of any other Atari OS will have to live with the fact that their OS is no longer under development and new versions of apps might no longer run if (we should be so lucky) real new OS extensions are made. But they hardly ever are, since we always get stuck in trying to please everyone with everything. Maurits.