[Kde-games-devel] Re: REKO cardsets for KDE cardgames?

[Henry W. Miller]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Neil Stevens wrote:

> On Friday June 06, 2003 06:42, Henry W. Miller wrote:
> > My vote is to have KDE directly read this format, and convert it to PNG
> > (or whatever) internally.
>
> It can't be done, at least not usefully.  We have to keep the data file
> installations compatible with previous versions.  If you mid-stream decide
> to install decks of a new format, the new decks aren't going to work with
> existing apps.

Kword reads many different document formats, and they ad new ones all the
time.  Why can't games do the same thing.   I'm not proposing getting rid
of the current deck format, just adding a new one.   Ideally it would be
an optional plugin.