Volatile Software(stevelosh.com)

6 pointsby wheresvic19 lat temu1 comments

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/04/volatile-software/

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It's also useful for older versions of software to gracefully handle newer configuration files. If the software really is backwards-compatible, then this should come for free. Just don't throw a fatal error when processing an unknown configuration key, and preserve any unrecognized configuration items when saving the configuration file.