On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:02 pm, David Engel wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:23:36PM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote: > > Nigel Pearson wrote: > > > Agreed, but as long as it is targetted for removal > > >some time in the future, the impact is minimal? > > > > Not knowing what issues may come up, I think it would be good > > for the users who try to upgrade to 0.17 to still have access > > to the data in these tables. If they are stable and go on to CVS > > after the release then there there should be no issue with > > dropping the unused tables IMO. > > I suggest the guideline that database items be obsolete for at least > two releases before they get removed. For example, anything that was > last used in 0.15, can't be removed until 0.17 is released.
How do you handle data whose meaning changes, though? Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
