Re: NSMenu* and NSPopuUp* issues

[Serg Stoyan]

Hello Richard,

> 
> On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 08:33  am, Serg Stoyan wrote:
> >   I see. Thanks Richard. Anyway I've got back horizontal menu code
> >   including encoding decoding part. So, if we'll decide to remove
> >   horizontal menu related code again, we should leave encoding/decoding
> >   part forever? Or maybe we should have policy placed on 
> > www.gnustep.org
> >   in "Developers" section?
> 
> I think leaving backward compatibility of decoding archives almost 
> forever
> is best policy. It introduces very little performance/code-complexity 
> overhead.
> Certainly, I'd leave it in for a few years ... long enough for all 
> 'live' applications
> to have been updated by their maintainers.

  No problem. I guess we should leave comments around this code to state it
  as backward compatibility. But this is obviously for future changes...

-- 
Serg Stoyan