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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Currently notebook.zim is used as the notebook config file (opening it opens
> > zim). Using this extension for notes would force renaming the config file
> > and will backward incompatible.  I would prefer something less application
> > specific, although "file.wiki" or "file.note" on the other hand may be to
> > generic.
> A case was recently made that backwards-compatibility could be
> compromised as there is no release version yet.
>
>   

Yes, but the case was about the interface behavior. When we break 
compatibility of notebook content we need to be able to detect it - the 
new version may change things, but it should know how to read notebooks 
created with a previous version and not break completely.

-- Jaap