RE: Unicode string handling

> I think it is especially dangerous abandoning old phones.  If 
> we don't bring their code up to date then they will slowly 
> but surely diverge from the main codebase.  When someone 
> finally does use them, the exception will be confusing and 
> not similar to current exceptions.  To fix anything would 
> require two steps.  One is to bring the code up to date, and 
> then the second would be to fix the underlying issue.  The 
> difficulty of the first (which gets harder and harder over 
> time) means the latter becomes less and less likely to be fixable.
> See the lgtm_520 module for a good example of exactly this happening.
> 
> Quite frankly BitPim is a community project.  If people in 
> that community stop paying attention, or don't care about 
> particular models then I don't see the point of BitPim also doing so.

How do we conclude this?


Simon



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