How important is two-way compatibility function library?

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How important is two-way compatibility with AHK v1.1 and v2-alpha?

Devs should focus more time on an official library and tweaking functionality to enable easier transition from 1.1 to 2-alpha.
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6%
Maybe would be valuable once alpha becomes beta; but it might make more sense to just convert everything at the point desired.
4
22%
Neutrally interested; there's too much overhead.
3
17%
Opposed; i.e. just pick a language and code that way; like you would C vs Java; or Python 2 vs 3.
10
56%
 
Total votes: 18
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How important is two-way compatibility function library?

28 Dec 2017, 11:04

Cast your vote.

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Links to work done so far:
https://github.com/cocobelgica/AutoHotkey-Future
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic ... 47#p171847 [not in a convenient place for distribution to many people, but probably the best so far.
etc...
try it and see
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Re: How important is two-way compatibility function library?

08 Jan 2018, 17:08

Sorry everyone (3 people that voted), I edited the options and that wiped the votes so far... :P
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Re: How important is two-way compatibility function library?

08 Jan 2018, 20:18

i have done this for the Gdip library with the help of others:
https://github.com/mmikeww/AHKv2-Gdip

however, v2 was explicitly created to BREAK COMPATIBILITY, which means that it will be infeasible to accomplish this for some code. eventually you will just be converting everything back down to DllCalls and directly going through the winapi, which defeats the purpose of using AHK altogether.

so i voted neutral

alternatively you could help building v1->v2 converter:
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25100


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