Re: [Evolution-hackers] Upgrade path from 2.6 to 2.10

["Øystein Gisnås" <oystein gisnas net>]

2007/4/14, Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>:
> On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 13:24 +0200, Øystein Gisnås wrote:
> > Are there any changes in the data format between 2.6 and 2.10.1? Or
> > anything else that may cause trouble without installing 2.8 in
> > between?
> >
> > We're considering to package 2.10.1 as a replacement for 2.6.3 in the
> > Debian distributions. If there are any possible upgrade problems, we'd
> > like to investigate that before the upload
>
> We usually implement migration paths from old data formats to new
> directly in the program, with support for old formats going back as far
> as version 1.4 (I believe).  So I don't forsee any upgrade problems.
>
> But don't quote me on that.  :)

The upgrade code I know is the typical libdb-backend upgrade code like
in e-book-backend-file.c, right? But there could also be other kinds
of migration problems like the imap4rev1->imap4 for example..

Øystein