Anton Berezin wrote:
Hi!
>> Could you try with a clean configuration? Just try
>>
>> mv $HOME/.scid $HOME/_scid
>>
>> and rerun Scid. Scid should then regenerate it's config
>> and should work properly. If so, its not a bug in Scid
>> but an incompatiblity with an old config.
>
> You are quite right. I got the book back by doing this.
> Dou think the incompatibility problem can be somehow
> solved (maybe by detecting the older version and doing the
> conversion)?
Most likely Pascal can comment on this. I admit that I do
not know whats going wrong here at all, it was mainly a wild
guess that it could be solved that way ;) A lot changed from
3.6.1 to 3.7, you missed out about 30 intermediate releases
or so.
> Right now it would look funny to say:
>
> If you upgrade from 3.6.1, first copy the configuration
> out of the way, then start up scid, then restore all your
> settings as you remember them, then copy the bookmarks
> file from the old configuration to the new fresh one
> etc...
I agree.
<hackers guide>
You can copy back you old config file by file and see
where it fails. Additionally, you could of course use
decent tools like vi and diff etc. to solve the pending
issues manually. You can even delete parts of options
files to regain as much of your old config as possible,
what's not there should be regenerated properly. Scids
config is stored in Tcl-type text files, naming is such
that you can mostly guess what settings your're working
at.
If you go through that procedure and know whats failing
it might help to report here about it, maybe it could
then be resolved in a more end-user-oriented way.
</hackers guide>
NOTICE: the last section is NO ADVISE for the general user,
nor does it guarantee that it works at all and it helps if
you know a what you're doing here. In general it is NOT
recommended. I do it from time to time, but ...
<Place your favourite disclaimer here.>
> A couple of other things which I noticed that are pretty
> annoying:
See my other mail.
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