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[Philip Lee <rocketman768@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:16 PM, mik firestone <mikfire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> One of the things rolling around in my head right now is how to fix the
> Windows conversions. I have a question and a few ideas that I would like to
> throw out.
>
> Why are we storing anything in the options.xml? The problem right now with
> our upgrade process is that each new version installs its own options.xml
> and we have no way of knowing a previous version was installed, let alone
> where it lives. We have converted everything else to the database. What
> makes this one special? Could we use the Qt properties instead?
>
> My idea is that we put the user_data_dir into the Qt properties. This will
> persist over upgrades. We can then add another attribute, sort of like
> 'converted', to simply log which version was last run. If our current
> version > last version, look for the database in user_data_dir and do
> whatever it is we do when we upgrade.
>
> But rocketman usually has reasons for what he does, and I don't like just
> randomly changing stuff without understanding why it was done that way.
>
>
That file is a relic. Toss it out with the trash. Qt properties should
work, I think, and this sounds like a good idea Mik.

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Philip G. Lee
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