Orion Pobursky Wrote:The "end-of-lifed apps" you mention also happen to be the most popular for creating models with the library. I'd like to at least try to not break compatibility with them unless we have a really good reason.
Right - I figured it was the strong popularity of older apps that aren't being actively developed that was the strong motivation to try to keep parts completely backward compatible.
My view is that -if- we have a breaking directive in the format, a 'filtered' library is a nice way to have both old-program compatibility and new options...clearly we wouldn't go to the extra work or add that level of complexity if a backward compatible directive is possible.
Cheers
Ben