[Lazarus] AutoCommit

Ondrej Pokorny lazarus at kluug.net
Sat Nov 14 07:01:12 CET 2020


On 13.11.2020 21:23, Juha Manninen via lazarus wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 6:19 PM Larry Dalton via lazarus 
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org <mailto:lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org>> 
> wrote:
>
>     So we lose some backwards portability?
>
>
> IIRC it has been called "forward compatibility" as opposed to 
> "backward compatibility".
> Backward compatibility means your old code works in new versions of 
> FPC/LCL/Lazarus.
> The other direction is not guaranteed. New code cannot always be used 
> in old versions.

Exactly.

Although in case of LFM streaming we usually try to help with default 
property values as we discussed before. And yes, I usually forget to add 
the default values as well :)

Ondrej

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