On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 17:59 +0200, Maarten Bosmans wrote: > > What do you think the best route forward here is? > > > > 1. Convert on the fly only. > > 2. Convert on the fly and write to disk. > > > > Vote now! > > 2. > > I'm not too worried about preserving stored values either way > actually. It's just user preferences, moreover, they are implicit > preferences, only resulting from volume change or moving of a stream. > In my opinion that's not so valuable as to make significant effort to > protect it in some rather uncommon scenarios. (downgrading to pulse > using previous db format or severe bug in db handling code) Not good. There's a not-so-uncommon scenario which is the NFS-mounted $HOME shared between desktops with differing versions (for instance, where I work we have a mix of RHEL4, RHEL5 & RHEL6). To correctly handle that situation, db formats should of course be backward & forward compatible, but if it's not possible at least not write to disk the new format if possible. HTH, Xav
