[Gnu-arch-users] Re: implicit discussion

[Aaron Bentley]

Miles Bader wrote:

> Well there are different sorts of compability; the most important would
> be preserved -- old archives would still work.  The decision of when to
> break compatibility with old version of tla itself would then properly
> be where it belongs, with the archive owner.

Well, Tom's against breaking archive compatibility without strong 
reasons, and I tend to agree.  To my mind, one compelling reason to 
break compatibility would be efficient binary file diffs.  But I don't 
want to require people to upgrade tla in order to read our archives. 
Not unless the payoff is worth it.

Aaron