Re: migrating to new backend format

[Jens Bech Madsen <jbm oncable dk>]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 07:48, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:42, Chipzz wrote:
> [...]
> > As most users won't go back anyway, I don't see much difference with the
> > other option of just migrating the tree on the first run, and popping up
> > a question weither to delete the old tree or not. Question is of course
> > _what_ should display that setting. I think the answer is to provide 2
> > migration scripts, one forward and one backward, and let gnome-session
> > or gnome-settings-daemon run it.
> 
> Any data to back up the "most users won't go back" claim? I seriously
> doubt that anybody has enough understanding of our userbase to make
> claims like that.
> 
> The problems with incompatibilities moving from GNOME 2.2 to GNOME 2.4
> are annoying enough in an environment with shared home directories, to
> pick one case where this will bite. Let's not continue the pain for
> GNOME 2.6 if it can be helped. It is not practical to upgrade every
> machine to the latest GNOME all at once, nor is it practical to keep
> everything stuck back at the older version in such environments.

Hurray!! That is so true.