Re: Your Opinions Requested

[Jules Bean <jmlb2 hermes cam ac uk>]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Bruno Pires Marinho wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Pawel Salek wrote:
> 
> > Personally,
> > 
> > I prefer gnome-config format: I have impression it's more common and
> > better documented. The configuration conversion is (IMHO) of secondary
> > importance, balsa is still in an experimental phase and the deployment
> > isn't that wide that we should worry about it, is it?
> 
> I agree with the gnome-config choice but we still can have a script made 
> in perl or something like to convert the old configuration file to a 
> gnome-config file. If balsa finds an old config asks the user if the user 
> wants to loose the information and continue (continuing goes to 
> balsa-config code and the old file is removed) or exit and run the
> conversion program.

Note that one of my debian users had a problem with .balsarc .4 --> .6
compatibility:

http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/55/55509.html

We should avoid problems like this in the future.

Jules

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