Re: [G2R] Re: PATCH for some random stuff.

[Bruce Robert Pocock <brpocock 10east com>]

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 08:19, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 14:20, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > The question is more whether it's ok to remove preferences from schemas 
> > files in a stable release.
> 
> 	I think common sense would dictate that there is no merit in leaving an
> ignored preference lying around, and since the feature doesn't really
> work either ...

Devil's Advocate: Would this be an issue in cases of e.g. one user, two
machines, where the preference might be active on one machine but
archaic on the other? That's the Microsoft explanation for the Windows
policy of "never delete from the Registry..."

> 	When someone eventually writes hard core bin-compat guidelines I'm sure
> we can argue more about this ;-) for now it seems fine to me for 2.0.X.
> The main thing is that Nautilus upgrades fine and continues to work,
> which is not really in question.
> 
> 	That's my take anyway,
> 
> 	HTH,
> 	
> 		Michael.