Am 26.01.2014 20:51, schrieb Reindl Harald:
Am 26.01.2014 20:45, schrieb Chris Murphy:
>> So ?
>> It is only visible if you downgrade which a lot of software do not
>> support and explicitly so
>
> The right way to do file format changes is you design the new format.
> And in a minor version update, the application gains the ability to
> read the new file format, but still writes the old file format.
> The major version upgrade of the application is enabled to write the
> new file format, while it can read either old or new formats.
please look at the hidden folders in your userhome and /var/lib/
to get a picture about what we are talking here
> If Adobe Photoshop version n.1.0 started to write out Photoshop documents
> in a manner that n.0.0 could not read, 100% of users would call it a major bug,
> and it would escalate into vicious name calling
nobody but you is talking about documents the user really visualizes
> Breaking downward compatibility in file formats for regular Joe user is courting
> public relations disaster. It can kill a product. Even Microsoft doesn't do this
lightly
nobody but you is talking about documents the user really visualizes
you may also read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite
* sqlite is used by a lot of software to store data
* a new feature in a new version may change the scheme
* you do not need care about that
* the new software version recognizes the old format and applies changes
* the old software version may ignore new tables and columns
* it continues to ignore them and don't donwgrade the version info stored somewhere
* the new version after the next update expects consistent data in the new format
* your downgrade and still work with the sqlite database may lead to regret doing so
months later
again: *nobody* is talking about documents
and the same which is done with sqlite may be *whatever* format of store internal data
but is affected by the same problematic - *nobody* really supports downgrades
they *may* work fine, there *maybe* are no changes
nobody is telling you so - why? - because what you are doing is not supported
so *please* stop talking about document formats in *that* thread