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Originally Posted by lasto

whats the difference in codin between 3.7 and 3.8 ????
Is there any difference at all ? Would all hacks that are coded for 3.8 work on 3.7 and if so then why the different sections ?
Its very confusing as next week 3.9 will be out and week after 3.10 - how are we meant to keep up with this all the time.
Lets face it vbulletin board in its standard state is not the best to look at,so we all grab a few hacks and style etc and re-mod our boards to the way we like them - then you bring out a new version and because we got used to our hacks etc we are unable to upgrade because they dont work on newer versions.
Vbull should make any update to its software backwards compatible so old hacks still work regardless if the core system has changed.

While that is a nice concept, in practice it won't work because it would force all coders to use the same style and would also prevent a lot of development from happening.

In 3.7 the social groups concept was introduced... one of the complaints was that it didn't offer forums for the social groups, so someone wrote a modification for it.

vB listened to the complaints and wrote social forums into vB 3.8 -- obviously the hack written for 3.7 won't work as it now conflicts with something offered in 3.8. Now the author of that mod (or similar) may still not find that the new social forums in 3.8 meet there needs so they modify their mod to work with 3.8.

As for 3.9/3.10, I assume you were just using them as examples to make a point and you don't really expect those versions to come out since they have been working on a vB 4 for well over a year now.

The majority of my installed modifications that I ran on 3.6 worked just fine when I installed 3.7 -- a few didn't, but most of them were "fixed" by the authors and worked in a relatively short period of time -- which is one of the benefits of the beta period.

As 3.8 is released and used, coders will find features to write modifications specifically for and those may be specific only to 3.8 and CAN'T be backwards compatible to older versions because the code may simply not exist in the older versions.

It's a fact of life with software and your choice could be to pick a version and stick with it and never upgrade -- that would certainly be YOUR choice to do so, but I think many of the rest of us are ok with the upgrade process.