Upcoming breaking file format changes

[Tobias Leupold]

E-Mail von Robert Krawitz via KPhotoAlbum vom Donnerstag, 24. April 2025, 02:48:
> On 4/22/25 16:39, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > TL/DR: upcoming index.xml changes are not backwards compatible. Have a backup 
> > ready and see if you can find any bugs.
> 
> This will certainly mean that kpa-util will need to be fixed...
> 
> I've been through a lot and have had no time or energy to devote to hacking.  I lost my wife to
> cancer about 3 months ago; she was diagnosed about 3 years ago, and needless to say that's where all
> my cycles have gone...
> 

Hi Robert,

those are definitely not the news one wants to hear. My sincerest condolences!
This of course makes it fully understandable why we didn't hear much from you
the last time ... I wish you all the strength you need and all the best for
what may come!

Apart from that, kpa-util will defintely have to be fixed, as the way category
names are escaped to be used as XML attributes for the "compressed" format is
different now, plus all categories now have IDs (the attribute names are now
simply "tags_<category ID>"). Also, all area data is now stored within the
tags ID list, like so: "<ID>+a=<x y w h>,...".

It was quite simple to implement this, so I suppose it won't be too hard to
add this to the Perl code (for now, we could as well simply let the script
refuse to work on v11 databases).

Regards, Tobias