Makes perfect sense to me to postpone these updates for later.

Best Regards,

Lukas

On Sep 29, 2010, at 18:28 , Patrick Ohly wrote:

> On Do, 2010-09-23 at 02:30 -0700, Lukas Zeller wrote:
>> I owe you an answer regarding commits 0e139ee311 and 4275e77001:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> But altough going back is possible here, the binfile store generally
>> does not provide going back (that is, without loosing all settings),
>> only forward. As soon as something changes in the data format, the DB
>> version field in the binfile is incremented, and it will no longer be
>> compatible with the previous version.
> 
> In general that approach is fine, I wasn't expecting anything else. It's
> just that I'd like to warn users and whenever possible, give them the
> choice of going back. That increases the number of people who can try
> out an experimental snapshot, because they can try something and then
> fall back to the stable version more easily.
> 
> Given that these two changes are fairly intrusive, I think I'll pass for
> SyncEvolution 1.1. Instead I'll release with some specific fixes
> backported, and then combine the libsynthesis update with some other
> non-backward compatible changes in SyncEvolution itself.
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
> 
> The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
> I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
> represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
> on behalf of Intel on this matter.
> 
> 

Lukas Zeller (l...@synthesis.ch)
- 
Synthesis AG, SyncML Solutions  & Sustainable Software Concepts
i...@synthesis.ch, http://www.synthesis.ch





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