Re: GConf and bonobo-conf

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> So in the specific case you mentioned for example, how would you
> migrate to a new version of Evolution that wanted to add or remove
> fields from those objects? At that point it seems like the convenience
> of CORBA_any would go straight downhill, you'd need to keep two
> versions of your IDL and handle both.

You can have versioned configuration files, which you should do,
anyways.

And since the IDL would be a published interface and thus cannot
change, I would simply create a new interface with the new stuff and
preserve the old one.

  Federico

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