On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:20:29AM -0400, Jewett, Jim J wrote: > > Since the structure of the metadata has had to be > > changed, Cleaner MUST be run to delete the temp files before > > running this version. > > What exactly does cleaner remove?
It clears out any/all combinations of the Preferences, Temporary (meta) files, and/or the PlkrDocList file. > Having to repluck reference documents is a reason not to upgrade. > Losing font and command preferences is just an annoyance. What Alex is proposing won't kill documents or font/preferences. However it will have to re-build the meta files in order to support the 32bit offset value. The only real consequence of rebuilding the meta files is that you'll lose any bookmarks as well the point where you last left off in the doc itself. IMO the only real issue with this is the bookmarks, as I can see how they would be important to people. Perhaps spawning the bookmarks into a separate file may be a necessary step? > If all I lost was the information on which documents had already been > read, then I wouldn't mind at all - in fact, I would suggest making a > check for prefs version (and cleaning if required) part of the main > program. (I suspect that people sticking to non-beta releases will > update rarely enough that the preferences have almost always changed > on them.) It already is there. However, it requires the internal version number of the database to be incremented, which Alex just did. It's really not such a Bad Thing, upgrading is. Besides, I'm certain that any plucker developer will introduce a change as catastrophic as requiring the user to repluck everything :) (If in the future that such a change is required, I'm certain that a conversion program will be made available :) -- Adam McDaniel Array.org Calgary, AB, Canada _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
