Re: Advice on how best to handle non-backwards compatibility
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:53:32AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:15:59PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > Can't lprngtool just indicate that it can't interpret ones it doesn't
> > understand?
I've just tested lprngtool 1.3.2-3's behaviour in reading a printcap entry
generated by 1.1.1-6, and it reads it without any major issues, so there's
no problems there. It's more a case of the filter being wrong now (as
demonstrated in the example printcap entries in another email on this
topic).
> I'm going to have to do more testing. In fact, the wider testing the better.
> Would you mind grabbing the lprngtool from unstable, and seeing what it says
> about your printcap?
>
Andrew
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