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Originally Posted by carpeperdiem
Why shouldn't new development only be for the new branch? Why should the developers waste their time on backwards compatibility? DO you know how much of WinXP is code so that programs written in 1996 can still run? I have read that as much as 60% of the OS is dedicated to legacy. That's Millions of lines of code...
I applaud X-cart for making this call... the sooner a critical mass adopts the new codebase, the sooner we will look at 4.0 as "legacy"
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Unfortunately that's a very very naive way to look at it. X-cart can't be upraded like a switch once you've changed it, there are thousands and I do mean thousands of x-cart sites out there running VERY large websites on x-cart 3 all the way through to x-cart 4, moving from a 3.X site to a 4.X site on a search engine positioned multi level marketed site isn't something you can do lightly.
Win XP does run old code for just that reason. Doing many of the x-cart add ons for x-cart 3 and 4 from x-carts point of view is not a huge undertaking, for example zoomify, affiliate, survey nothing in these is so directly tied to the 4.1.X that they can't easily be done for the lower two branches at least.
I mean come on we've got around 30 purchased x-cart licenses alone, many still run on x-cart 3, why? Because it works, because the sites make money, would I like to add x-survey to many of them? Hell yes I jumped straight in here for that reason.
I know we won't be upgrading many of these sites to 4.1.X for a very long time which is unfortunate because we'd love to add some of the x-cart add ons to the sites. It's a user base that x-cart already has which is being ignored when new add ons are made which is a real shame.