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

[Paul Richards]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:44:09AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> 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?
> >
> 
> You know, I'm completely outraged that I can't use MSWord 2005 on my 
> Windows 3.1 system!  I even installed the win32s library!  Don't those 
> bozos at Microsoft care at all about forwards compatibility?

We're talking minor releases across stable branches here. This
issue is not whether 6.1 should run on 5.3 it's whether 5.4 should
run on 5.3

I would expect software developed on XP service pack 2 to be able
to run on a fresh CD install of XP.

-- 
Paul Richards