On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080719 07:35]: > > The last couple of gv changelog entries look suspicious, and if my > > ~/.gv file contains any entries whatsoever (no matter what they are), > > I get the following: > > > > > gv year-Trange.eps > > gv Error: incompatible resources. > > One of the files > > /usr/share/gv/gv_system.ad > > /home/tconnors/.gv > > belongs to an older version of gv and can not be used. > > Please remove or update the outdated file. > > The error message means that your ~/.gv is too old and needs to be > deleted/moved away for gv to work. > (gv got some new special magnifications)
Except that any content in ~/.gv seems enough to trigger that error, which is not very... elegant. I grabbed individual lines from the file, and they were enough to trigger the failure. Strangely, the newly generated .gv doesn't seem that much different. > Sadly I see not much possiblity to improve that situation easily. > Perhaps a more suggestive error message might perhaps help? Regenerating preferences is a pain. If this is going to happen at some future upgrades, then perhaps some thought needs to be given to how to aleviate such incompatibilities. Attempting to parse an old version and converting to a new version would be welcome behaviour, although I don't know whether the Xresources style format would allow that. -- TimC "If American bicycle advocacy leaders had championed the civil rights movement, the "Dream" would have been reserved seating in the back of the bus." - Jack R. Taylor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
