[Cosmo-dev] Re: changing the format of modification recurrence-ids in eim

[Mikeal Rogers]

On May 9, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Morgen Sagen wrote:

>
> On May 8, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:
>
>> On 5/8/07, Grant Baillie <grant at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> FWIW, I think Chandler clients would have to understand (at least
>>> temporarily) both old and new formats, or dump and reload will be
>>> broken and that will make me cry.
>>
>> really?
>
>> are you trying
>> to maintain complete compatibility across checkpoints?
>
> Sure, as much as possible we try to keep people's existing dump  
> files usable by newer versions of Chandler.  I think in this case  
> it should be easy for Chandler to support both formats since  
> parsing/generating them is limited to two methods.  What will *not*  
> work, however, would be if Cosmo started using the new format for a  
> previously published collection.  So I think we would require that  
> the server-side collections be wiped out and that Chandler  
> republish them.

With this being the case I'd like to see the change go in before the  
next rc.

We haven't shipped yet, we have a small window, if it's going to  
reduce the complexity for developing/testing eim based sharing we  
should make this change now.

-Mikeal
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