possible O2 PP display bug

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sat Mar 2 10:04:38 PST 2013


Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Now you cannot do that. Because 1.xy would also be 1.xy if x > 0
>
> We could recognize old files that haven't been over-saved at all with
> new versions. They have numbers in the form "x. y" or "x.y0" or
> "x.yz0", none of which happen in new files. So the old format is
> recognizable, but:
>
> Once it's been loaded and then saved in the new format, there's no
> going back. That would be true regardless of the details new format
> (ie also if it was always fixed at three decimal digits (ie w.xyz)..

But that's important because our regular users outside this mailing list
haven't resaved data yet, right?

SO maybe we SHOULD write such parsing code and up the version number for
the file format in 3.0.2?

/D


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