Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!cbmvax!chrisg From: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: OldOpenLibrary (was Re: Short Hello World) Message-ID: <21648@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 16 May 91 15:50:04 GMT References: <4872@orbit.cts.com> <1991May13.190617.1119@cinnet.com> <1991May14.105731.30717@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1991May15.103610.12158@starnet.uucp> <1991May16.042906.4763@starnet.uucp> Reply-To: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 20 In article rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Rockwell) writes: > >First off, 2.0 has not yet been released. It is a bit premature to >say "stop using OldOpenLibrary" when that would break on just about >every amiga in existence. This is part of life :-). > I have no idea if OldOpenLibrary will ever be killed, but what's the big deal? I can't image that even as little as a 1% chance of being incompatible with a future OS release is worth one MOVEQ #V_1.2,D0 in your startup code before calling the new OpenLibrary. There are cases where there are legitimate tradeoffs in efficiency versus possible future compatibility, but this is not one, by any stretch of the imagination. -- *-------------------------------------------*---------------------------* |Chris Green - Graphics Software Engineer - chrisg@commodore.COM f | Commodore-Amiga - uunet!cbmvax!chrisg n |My opinions are my own, and do not - killyouridolssonicdeath o |necessarily represent those of my employer.- itstheendoftheworld r *-------------------------------------------*---------------------------d