April 6, 2002
9:53 p.m.
At 01:12 AM 4/6/02 -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
"RJ" == Ron Jarrell <jarrell@vt.edu> writes:
>> You don't. While the error message is misleading, your >> config.db file will be automatically updated to config.pck the >> first time you load your list (via web, qrunner, or command >> line script). RJ> Ah hah. And you didn't believe me when I posted the comment a RJ> while back that it really shouldn't do that...I apologize, because I don't remember that conversation.
But I don't see it as being much different than writing the config.db file when we (used to) save. We're just doing it in a more robust data file format (marshal == bad, pickle == good).
Not that using the pickle file was bad, the fact that during the upgrade your error log fills with dire warnings about your db files being bad.
The other thing I mentioned, which I'll mention again, since you haven't been in email mode is that dropping the placeholder page into the archives for lists that already *had* working archives was a really bad move...