Well it seems version dirs are here to stay.
I'd try to get the version updater be smart enough to figure out the
previous installed version, so we do not have to change that in every
release.
It could be also possible to add a task which checks the previous
user/cache dirs and offer them for removal if they are not being used
for a month or so.
On 4/4/19 12:48 PM, Tim Boudreau wrote:
On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 7:40 AM Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear all,
I would like to ask your opinion about changing the user and cache-dir
with every release.
We have been pretty much compatible with our plugins and code since 8.2
That's great, but only until somebody breaks something, which you typically
don't know until a lot of users have had a bad experience.
Keeping the cache dir seems reasonable - the developer should be expected
to change subdir names if the data format is changed incompatibly.
But for the userdir, if a new version has written incompatible data, you've
closed off any way to downgrade to the previous version. That's not okay.
-Tim
e dirs are just kept floating around.
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