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Re: Poll: personal convenience vs. global improvement of docs



On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:42:05AM -0700, William Yardley wrote:
re: parsing / updating older config files - true, but you only really
need to update the config file once.

No, users may omit some versions (e.g. go from 1.0 to 1.4), or users may test version 1.4, the config file will be migrated, the user goes back to 1.2, which has to handle now a too modern config file.

I don't think writing and maintaining such code is worth the trouble.

Shade and sweet water!

        Stephan

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