Hi,
Our intention is to keep backword compatibilty as much as possible and we will stress to avoid this, but we will have to make fixes and enhancements that may break things. I have design plans in mind to reduce those changes to a minimum, but we may run into unavoidable situations.
In the case of PDF Maker, the guys at ITS4YOU have not said anything to me about the coreBOS project, so I do not know what they are thinking (and that is kind of curious because we have a very good relation with them.... and I personally informed them directly....). Also, since PDFMaker is encrypted there is no way we can pickup the project and continue it, so it is completely in their hands to keep it alive or not.
As to an alternative, we have one, we use it regulalry on some of our clients, and we will release it when necessary, the basic idea is to generate your PDFs or outputs in general using OpenOffice.
Finally one more note on compatibility, as I said before we will strive to keep compatibility but there are some REALLY invasive extensions and modules out there that do not follow the rules of vtlib programming, those extension will be forced to keep on being invasive. The good part is that now they have somebody they can share their code with. If they argument well enough that something is needed in the code base and we verify that it won't break anything we will attend and they can always upload their project to github where anybody comfortable enough playing with the code can mix the projects together with ease.
Thank you for taking the time to evaluate coreBOS, I personally appreciate it <!-- s:-) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":-)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:-) -->
