Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> writes: > Incidentally, about the legacy code for loading old notebooks: here > is one lesson to be learned about long-term support of data files. > The only sane way to handle this imho is: > > * The current code can read/write the current data format > * Whenever you upgrade from format version N to N+1, you write a > self-contained updater. > * Old files are sent through the chain of updaters until they are > current.
+1, that makes a lot of sense. Who says Sage devs don't know about software engineering? :P -Keshav -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
