Re: [Gramps-devel] New in CVS - faster person list updates and tool/report menus

[Don A. <dal...@us...>]

On 12 Aug 2001 17:53:14 +0200, Jochen Topf wrote:
> Does "renumber" mean that they get totally new numbers? Or that they have
> a "I" prepended. I can't renumber everybody, because I use the gramps ID
> in other lists as references. I don't mind the "I", but having to persons
> with the same number or changing the number later should never happen.

Yes, everything gets a new, non-numerical ID number, if, and only if,
you
run the new renumbering tool. Prepending an "I" may not work (such as
changing
"0" to "I0", because the new ID ( "I0") may already exist.

As of 0.4.0, all new IDs generated are non-numerical. Old IDs are left
alone, precisely for the reason that you mentioned (backward
compatiblity),
unless you explicitly run the renumbering tool.

The old numerical IDs will work fine in gramps - just that gramps now
treats
them as strings, not integers. No guarentees can be made about other
tools 
if numerical ids exist. If another tool uses a validating parser,
numerical
IDs will cause the parser to fail.

And, as I have discovered, quite a few people are using the XML
generated
by gramps for other purposes.

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