Re: [Gramps-users] Gramps database

[Martin S. <mar...@ma...>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 02:01:08PM -0400, David O. Rowell wrote:
>Personally, I think that any update that makes the "old" database
>unassessable should be accompanied by a utility that will convert it to
>the new format.  

I don't understand this. Isn't Gramps itself such a utility?

>Further it shouldn't trash the old file but rather make an updated
>copy.  If I recall that's what PAF did many years ago.

I've used Gramps for about five years, without any serious problems, on
a rolling-release linux distro... everything is continuously updated!

M.