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