On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 7:40 AM Laszlo Kishalmi <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to ask your opinion about changing the user and cache-dir
> with every release.
>
> We have been pretty much compatible with our plugins and code since 8.2


That's great, but only until somebody breaks something, which you typically
don't know until a lot of users have had a bad experience.

Keeping the cache dir seems reasonable - the developer should be expected
to change subdir names if the data format is changed incompatibly.

But for the userdir, if a new version has written incompatible data, you've
closed off any way to downgrade to the previous version. That's not okay.

-Tim



> e dirs are just kept floating around.
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