3dcheapskate opened this issue on Apr 23, 2020 ยท 38 posts
an0malaus posted Sat, 25 April 2020 at 5:01 AM
I'm aware that Windows users are blessed with neverending backward compatibility, but what are the returns from continuing to support Poser 6 or 7? Will you get sales (I'm not assuming anything, here) from those users not able or willing to move with the times. Mac users who have managed to migrate from Motorola PowerPC platforms running System 9 or earlier to OS X, now just called macOS have long had to wave goodbye to the ability to run anything earlier that Poser 2010.
I have quite a few scripts with a page of code trying to keep track of where preferences live from Poser 6 upwards. Since the implementation of PoserPrefs() method, that's all redundant unless you really need to support users of such old versions of Poser. What do you get out of that? Are there problems with your code that need to be fixed for users on those platforms or are you implementing new features? Users of old Poser versions may not be able to run them on Windows 10 (I do not know whether this is true or not), so they would never encounter UAC issues.
Write new code for new platforms, and let the old ones run the old software. If it works now, it won't need an update until they upgrade their OS/Poser version, in which case they can make use of new features which streamline your codebase. Draw a line in the sand.
[End devil's advocate mode] ;-)
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