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From: ken@cbmcats.UUCP (Ken Farinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New RKM - Libraries and Devices
Keywords: How soon will it be out of date?
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Date: 12 Jan 90 16:46:07 GMT
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In article <5306@blake.acs.washington.edu> dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson) writes:
>To what extent will 1.4 invalidate the new rkm, and how soon after the
>release of 1.4 will the 1.4 rkms be available?
>
>In other words, if I'm not going to be developing software during the next
>6 months, why shouldn't I wait for 1.4 and it's RKMs?

A lot will change with the release of 1.4, but a lot won't.  The new
libs and devs manual has a good deal of up-to-date information that is
not available elsewhere, and (if you follow the rules) code developed
under 1.3 should run under 1.4.  You do have to be careful not to assume
things (like the size of the font), and to look at the information
available to you (like the size of the window borders).

And who knows how long it will be until the 1.4 RKMs are out, for a while
everyone will be operating on DevCon notes, and the Includes & Autodocs.
Clearly, we can't publish the information until it is finalized.

New information will appear as fast as we can update it.

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