Is Valentina 2 for Director Backward compatible?

[Tatyana Gutierrez]

Dear Ruslan,

I have some more questions from my developer.

Can you provide us with information about the API differences, or is it
in some documentation you could point us to? 

If the _basic_ functionality of Val2 is unchanged from Val1 (example:
there is a function in both you can call to execute a SQL query) but the
name of that function has changed in Val2, then perhaps finding and
updating those function calls in our Director code isn't too much of a
hassle. On the other hand if Val2 API and function is fundamentally
changed from Val1 then we have a problem.

We wanted to clarify this with you to present to client.

Thank you so much,
Tatyana

Tatyana Gutierrez
          Project Manager
          Fusion Learning Systems 
          (512) 853-8923
          tgutierrez at fls-inc.com


-----Original Message-----
From: valentina-bounces at lists.macserve.net
[mailto:valentina-bounces at lists.macserve.net] On Behalf Of Ruslan
Zasukhin
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:39 PM
To: valentina at lists.macserve.net
Subject: Re: Is Valentina 2 for Director Backward compatible?

On 3/9/06 8:33 PM, "Tatyana Gutierrez" <tgutierrez at fls-inc.com> wrote:

Hi Tatyana, 
 
> I have a follow up question, if we change the code can we still use
the
> old database structure (Valentina 1) or do we need to convert to 2.x
> format? From your response, it appears that we would still need to
> convert.

You need convert *existed* databases
IF you create new dbs using V2 then no problems.

 
> Could you please let us know?
> 
> Basically, this is an upgrade that the schools already running old
> databases will receive.  So we need to determine what work it would
> entail on their end to be able to use the data that already exists in
> the old database.

Aha, right

    Check our examples/common/convert_1_2


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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