On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 11:49:15PM +0200, Markus Wanner wrote: > On 04/07/2016 11:37 PM, Stephen Leake wrote: > > There's a version number in the internal format, so we don't need a flag > > day (or maybe that was on a branch; anyway, we can add one). We do need > > to maintain both formats for compatibility with old databases. > > There's a version identifier for things like certs, revs, etc.., yes. > However, in any case, there's a point in time where monotone stops using > the old format and starts to use the new one. We can soften the > migration by prolonging the time between the first release that supports > a feature until we activate it. (Not that past flag days had a pretty > narrow window...)
Or perhaps we could use a new-style certificate to certify that each old-style certificate is valid. This might even be secure if the ew-style certificates are issued before the old-style ones are vulnerable to attack. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
