[Kde-pim] Mail migration status

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 27 May 2010, Thomas McGuire wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday 24 May 2010 22:30:02 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > I do have a general question on config migration: what about using
> > kmail2rc  (maybe even call the executable kmail2)?
> > There are probably setttings in kmailrc that do no longer make
> > sense, the migrator could (assuming we can get a mapping of
> > settings) just migrate those  which still do.
> > 
> > Has the nice side effect of making the same setup still usable with
> > KMail1 in  fallback scenarios.
> 
> We have not done that in the past, we've always used update scripts
> in kdepim/kmail/kconf_update.
> However, for KMail2, renaming the binary and the config file name is
> indeed a good idea.

+1 for renaming the config file.

I'm not so sure about the executable because renaming it will break 
scripts and applications which have 'kmail' hard-coded.


Regards,
Ingo
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