Hi, On 04/06/2020 12:54, Dominic Raferd wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 11:46, EricZolf <ewl+rdiffbac...@lavar.de> wrote: >> >> rdiff-backup has currently its own file formats, which are far from >> being standard, meaning a lot of custom code to handle these formats, >> respectively a lot of different files... > > +1 for YAML, but please retain compatibility (at least for > recover/verify) for existing repos >
This is definitely and absolutely the plan, and why changes will not come fast. I'll send an e-mail to have this discussion once I'll have more concrete plans but I have on my mind following rules of thumb: - introduce API (aka client/server communication) and repo versioning (independent from actual rdiff-backup version) - any breaking change must go over 3 versions of rdiff-backup, so that version N can handle N-1 and N+1 KR, Eric
