Compatibility and Migration IssuesAt first, ChaosPro tries to be compatible to itself (of course). So you should be able to read old ChaosPro formulas with new ChaosPro versions. Sometimes fractals will look different in a new version: This may happen if a function had a bug. I will remove bugs, of course. Now suppose the sin function in ChaosPro had a bug. I would remove that bug without trying to retain compatibility. Now lets continue discussing compatibility issues:
One note: If you have files from other fractal generators, I recommend to not place them into the ChaosPro folders (you can do that, if you like...), because then at program startup always the time consuming conversion takes place. Instead, start up ChaosPro, load the files using the appropriate command and save the result into the correct ChaosPro directory. Because the conversion may produce wrong results, please keep your original files for cross check (or if the current version of ChaosPro does a wrong conversion, perhaps a future version of ChaosPro can correctly convert a file...). |