From: Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@...>
Date: 2005-03-29T06:43:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Fox vs Fox12

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:49:46 +0900, Kero <kero@chello.single-dot.nl> wrote:

> Can somebody PLEASE improve on the code below?
> I mean... "require 'fox'" should just do it.
> I know RUBY_OPTIONS can help with gems, but this fox vs fox12 stinks, too.
> .... and this FOXVERSION and aliasing stuff... man, horrible.

Just to make something clear here: There were a number of API changes
between FOX versions 1.0 and 1.2, and thus FOX version 1.2 isn't
completely backwards-compatible with FOX 1.0.

It sounds like the original poster (Peter) in is the fortunate
situation that his code happens to run just fine under either FOX
version, but that's definitely the exception and not the rule. IMO, it
would be preferable for application developers to go ahead and update
their application(s) to FOX 1.2.