Arexx availability
05-Mar-91 17:41:46
Sb: #8116-Arexx availability
Fm: Bill Hawes 72230,267
To: John Pendergrass 76246,676
John,
In general the version of ARexx shipping with any release will be the
latest available at that time. When the 2.0 Enhancer packages ship, the
ARexx version will be at least V1.15, but further changes may have been
made.
Writing programs to use specific features of ARexx, or f the OS for that
matter, really depends on the application. If there's no other way to do
it, then the decision is simple, but otherwise you'll just reduce the
potential user audience. Despite my attempts to get updates out to
everyone, there will be some users running V1.10 for a long time, just as
there are a few with V1.06 or even earlier releases.
The modest update fee for the update disk goes towards paying back the time
it took to make the improvements; copying the disk so that others can avoid
ordering an update reduces the resources (and incentive) to make future
improvements.
-Bill