Re: [Evolution-hackers] evolution-data-server from Desktop to Platform?

[David Malcolm <dmalcolm redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 15:09 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 07:34 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > > Why this desire to preserve bin compatability, it doesn't seem
> > > worthwhile at this point ...
> 
> gstreamer (also in the Desktop, on the way to the Platform) has dealt
> with this by parallel-installing their 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, and 0.9 versions.
> It just shifts the pain onto them, and the distros, instead of the
> application authors, but it's maybe worth considering.
> 

AFAIK GStreamer doesn't have a lot of user-data/configuration, whereas
e-d-s has multiple sources of data, configured in GConf and cached or
stored under ~/.evolution

Would these be parallel installable APIs to the same data, or entirely
separate pools of data?  What would happen when you upgrade the version
of Evolution; would the migration code attempt to handle it?  What if
you have a data store supported in one version but not in another? etc
etc

Dave "naysaying when he should be packing for GUADEC" Malcolm