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#30
Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
Xploder, one of the few decent games from the OVI store stopped working when PR 1.2 was pushed, and again when PR1.3 was pushed. It was 2 weeks before they updated the app to handle the change the first time, and one week the second. There are still plenty of apps that stopped working in PR1.3 in Extras that are now just dead because nobody is maintaining them. (Hangman is a great example of this.)

So even the precious PR releases cause things to break. That's the nature of change and fixing things. You can only keep supporting busted behavior for so long before it breaks everything else.

And really, do you expect an app made explicitly for PR1.3 to work on PR1.1 or PR1.2? They often don't. Why then would an app made specifically with CSSU settings be expected to work on a non-CSSU environment? It shouldn't. The fact that some actually do is somewhat astonishing.
Mostly using terminal programs and haven't experienced any problems between 1.2/1.3/1.3.1, but if you say so.
Somehow CSSU guys did work on fixing modest crashes and other problems reported all the time. I consider xterm 'fix' that makes programs compiled on CSSU phone not work without it a backward incompatibility bug that is a showstopper for me. Do you expect all maintainers to fork their programs (CSSU-stable/CSSU-testing/non-CSSU variants?). Then again you could hunt down all the fixes in bugtracker and apply all that you want/need (like the enter not working in Midnight Commander patch which is the cause of the incompatibility btw, as behaviour is exactly the same as after installing CSSU).
Also, not M$ fanboy but Win98 programs work quite well in XP/Vista/W7