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Re:Why Enterprise Software Sucks by wolco on Friday October 11, 2019 @11:20AM (#21225218)
You want an older version to support all new features. That's not possible unless you just change the ui on each version.
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Re:Why Enterprise Software Sucks by earthboundkid on Friday October 11, 2019 @11:33AM (#21225344)
If you're going to break compatibility, at least fucking fix the dates.

http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.html

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Re:Why Enterprise Software Sucks by tomatocracy on Saturday October 12, 2019 @02:58PM (#21235387)
It’s not new features. Sometimes for no particular reason, a sheet which uses no new features isn’t backwards compatible.

In any event, it should be able to fail gracefully ie still load the sheet but not be able to calculate cells using new features and show a warning.

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