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[bz-gmort at beezifies.com]

Donna Marie Vincent wrote:
> If a site is being developed today in 1.0.13 (or .12), at what point do 
> you think it becomes unusable or unsuppoted?
> 
> Do you think most 3rd party developers are dropping support of 1.0.x asap?
> 


Well, at the moment the biggest push I see for 1.5 compatible apps is 
from users, not developers.

Most devs I see, with a few exceptions(RocketWerx) are sticking with 1.0

The problem is an app designed for 1.0 works under 1.5, and app designed 
for 1.5 doesn't work on 1.0

I think one thing that would speed development of 1.5 apps would be a 
library for 1.5 functions that could be used in 1.0

As an example, if you go fullbore on making an MVC app the "joomla" way 
there are a bunch of functions for loading the different bits of code.

But if you use all those functions, there is no way for that app to work 
in 1.0


Personally, if I had a preference in developing, I'd develop for Joomla 
1.5 with PHP 5.2 and MySQL v5

Man, talk about limiting your market to almost non-existant. :-)


(1.5 has a lot of silly little features that just make life better.  For 
example, they define a variable for the path to the administration side 
of the code - so in theory if all the apps that today hardcoded that 
path in their code switched to the variable, your then free to "hide" 
your admin folder by renaming it.  Security through obscurity is no 
answer for making an app secure to begin with.  On the other hand, 
sticking a super lock on a glass door isn't really making the entrance 
"secure" either)