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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Misplaced pride / Inform 5 vs 6
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Staffan Friberg (staff@rabbit.augs.se) wrote:

> > If I start another Inform game -- which won't be for a while -- I'll 
> > probably go in with I6. But I don't switch compilers, much less 
> > libraries, in mid-project; I still have a copy of I5.4 in case I have to 
> > recompile "A Change in the Weather".

> I don't have a problem with that but I guess we all have different thoughts
> on that. It doesn't require much change in the code at all and the new
> version is more flexible and looks nicer too. I don't have any old
> libraries or compilers here and I'd rather port the code than waste space
> with outdated files.

> I was actually surprised at how easy it was to make the switch.

Changes introduce bugs. We fear change.

(I made a few library hacks for both "Weather" and _So Far_, so I'd have
to transfer those changes to the I6 libraries as well.)

--Z

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