On 8/16/10 2:34 AM, Rich Tibbett wrote:
On 14/08/2010 03:12, Bernard Traversat wrote:
Should we have a more explicit way to specify and notify users that
some updates may require data conversion and
user data will be converted after the widget is updated? Due to the
error-prone nature of such conversion, users
may want to back up their data before proceeding with an update.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
User data is not stored in a widget package itself. An update to an
existing widget should be able to access the storage space used by
previous versions of the same widget.
If data conversion is required perhaps you have a use case we could
look at.
The data conversion is the use case i was referring to. We should have a
more explicit way to tell the end-users upfront that by installing the
new update
his/her data will be converted with the potential risk of losing data
and never going back to the older version.
Hth,
B.
Regards,
Rich
