Better explanation of backwards compatibility with 4.30.

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Eric S. Raymond 2024-01-02 16:34:54 -05:00
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@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ form that is (a) readable, and (b) friendly to forward translation to
future languages. It has already survived a move from FORTRAN to C; a
future as a Python or Go translation seems possible, even probable.
Compatibility with the 2.5 source we found has been checked by
building a version patched minimally to support the seed command and
running it against the entire test suite, which has 100% code
coverage.
== Functional changes ==
Bug fixes:
@ -213,7 +218,7 @@ messages with the objects that conceptually own them.
We consider this project finished. All issues and TODOs have been
cleared, behavior has been carefully checked against original ADVENT,
no future demand for new features is expected, and the test suite has
100% code coverage. If new bugs appear the toolchain bit-rots out
100% code coverage. If new bugs appear as the toolchain bit-rots out
from under underneath, we will fix those problems.
// end