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I initially created Better Together for OpenCart<\/a> to work with OpenCart 1.5.\u00a0 I came back several years later, and found that it needed significant changes for OpenCart 2.0.\u00a0 OK – then came OpenCart 2.3, and again, significant changes were required, and the old code was not upwardly compatible.\u00a0 OpenCart 2.0 to 2.3 is a minor version number update, and there should never<\/strong> be a NUC change in a minor version update (per semantic versioning<\/a>). Is the expectation really that I should maintain multiple copies of the source for each minor version change?\u00a0 As Rod points out, this would be unique among the open source carts I have worked with.<\/p>\n So a few years pass, and along comes OpenCart 3, which contains – you guessed it – yet more NUC changes.\u00a0 Guys, you’re killing me.\u00a0 But at least there will be compelling business drivers to encourage people to do this upgrade, right?<\/p>\n Well, no, not really, according to\u00a0Martin Boss of MultiMerch.\u00a0 \u00a0He says vendors considering\u00a0 upgrading from OpenCart 2.3 to 3.0<\/a> face\u00a0significant drawbacks and limited advantages.<\/p>\n So where does this leave independent software vendors like That Software Guy?\u00a0 In a pretty bad spot – I am actually getting requests to support Better Together on OpenCart 1.x, because people don’t want to upgrade to 2.3, never mind 3.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NUC – not upwardly compatible – means you’ll have problems using older code and data on a newer version of the code.\u00a0 Most software developers take great pains to avoid NUC changes, or at least document them carefully so that upgraders won’t be stung by them. But not OpenCart, sadly.\u00a0 This post from long time … Continue reading OpenCart and the NUC problem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opencart","category-that-software-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}