[bt-devel] Do we need Old bookmarks?

[Martin Gruner]

Hi Eeli,

if the dates you cite are correct, then I don't mind removing the 
functionality.
Joachim, please speak up if you disagree.

mg

Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2008 schrieb Eeli Kaikkonen:
> Importing the old bookmarks has probably been important when migrating
> to the then new system, but this happened 2003-01-04 according to the
> changelog. Do we still need this functionality? Is it possible that
> someone still wants to move the old bookmarks from version <=1.2.x to
> the 1.7 version? More than five years have lapsed after all and it's
> hard to imagine that someone still has a version older than 1.3. If this
> functionality is removed and someone has a problem with old bookmarks we
> could offer importing the bookmarks as a service - not too much trouble
> for these supposedly extremely rare cases, if we just have a running
> version between 1.3 and 1.7alpha2.
>
>
> I am rewriting the bookmarks index/items code and would like to simplify
> it as much as possible (now it uses 7 classes for items while only 3 or
> 2 should be necessary). Removing the importing functionality would save
> code and time.
>
> I'm sorry about the delay which is caused by the bookmarks but I
> couldn't get d'n'd working with the old mess of code...
>
>   Yours,
> 	Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
> 	e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)
>
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