Hi guys,
Soo - I'm trying to understand and summarize where we are, and the
basic problems so we can make a good decision; here are some of them
that I see:
A. Config migration is not 100% reliable, sometimes it gives you
a broken config; if you remove your config - but the
migration is automatic - you get no way to fix it.
A2. Thus if we do this automatically, it can give the
impression that OO.o is 'just broken' / 'does not
work at all' - where in fact, we just somehow
corrupted an old settings directory.
B. No config migration gives a problematic user experience
whereby you loose your settings (or macros, or ...) between
versions.
So - here is my suggestion ;-) hopefully it annoys everybody, and it is
two-fold.
1. we trawl for broken configuration settings in the code,
and work to harden the code against bad configurations so
it at least does not crash.
+ perhaps we could add an EasyHack to do some fuzzing
of the new XML config stuff as a start.
2. we continue to do automatic config migration since this is
a commonly desired use-case
*but*
as we migrate the settings the first time, we write into the
(original - ie. the old version)'s directory a stamp file
that says "these have been imported"
*and*
if the same version is run again with the new settings
directory removed (ie. someting went wrong); we prompt the
user on the second time:
"do you want to (re-)import settings from ABC install"
How does that sound as a compromise ? that way - hopefully we test the
migration code some more (although I agree this piece is hard to QA),
and we avoid annoying our users with dialogs on updates.
However - if the user does a migration and discovers their LibreOffice
is really broken: they are -no worse off- than they would have been
before had they selected the 'migrate' option: ie. they need to go and
remove their settings directory. Next time they run - they will get
prompted.
How does that sound ? or am I missing some requirements /
problems ? :-)
Thanks,
Michael.
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