On 17-01-2014, at 3:11 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <sean at clipperadams.com> wrote:

> tim Rowledge wrote
>> you have (very reasonably) decided to make a version of BYOB... I need to
>> make an *exact* Scratch port in order to support the many... users of
>> current Scratch 1.4
> 
> Is Phratch incompatible with Scratch? I had assumed that Phratch was
> "Scratch+" (i.e. backward compatible), and that existing users could use
> their Scratch projects in Phratch. Is that not the case?

There’s more to compatibility than that direction. I have to keep *exact* file compatibility; no changes to what can be in there, nothing that would stop someone using an old Scratch 1.4 system on a PC from using the file, nothing that wold surprise them.


tim
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