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[Václav Šmilauer <eudoxos@xxxxxxxx>]

>        I always found it very annoying when old .xmls become useless 
> after some updates. In my opinion this is an important change, and the 
> question could be asked to all users and not only devs (even if maybe 
> there are not so much more people in Yade-users than in Yade-dev?)

XMLs are just readable dumps of yade memory and that things are supposed
to change, there is no way to prevent that. Maintaining xml
backwards-compatible would freeze all development. Sorry.

Make your simulation in python. It shields you from internal details as
it is more high-level, but still lets you go to the implementation
detail level if you wish.

The original question was about SQLiteRecorder databases, however. You
pointed out very truly, though, that as old XML files are useless, quite
the same old sqlite databases (with embedded XML) are useless; so if I
add comporession, there is not much to lose...

V.