Re: migrating to new backend format

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 07:01:24PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 16:59, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Keep the ~/.gconf but use different file names.
> > Parallel install should still be doable, and trying to open the
> > old resource might still be doable too,
> 
> That's a thought. We could just use something other than the
> "%gconf.xml" (which was a bad name anyway).
> 
> The reason for the "%" is that character can't occur in gconf
> subdirectory names, other chars that could be used:
> 
> static const gchar invalid_chars[] = 
> " \t\r\n\"$&<>,+=#!()'|{}[]?~`;%\\";
> 
> The idea of % iirc was to avoid chars the shell cares about.
> 
> The other approach would be to escape the subdirectory names in some
> way, though this is problematic if sharing a tree with the old backend.

  or simply use a different suffix, like .xml2

Daniel

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