<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Brian J. Murrell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 09:42 -0800, Robert McNamara wrote:<br>
> This presumes that the functionality and syntax of the information exchanged<br>
> with the backend, and between the frontend and the backend doesn't change on<br>
> a very regular basis.<br>
<br>
</div>Not really. Indeed, the more frequently it does change the more<br>
frequently compatibility has to be dealt with, but that's not at all<br>
insurmountable.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No. Really. The protocol changes on average ten times per release for the past four releases, and the DB schema at least that many times.</div><div><br></div><div>
Robert </div></div><br>