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 _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
