Re: Warnings when loading preferences

[Kurt Knochner <ws.dev.list () nospam knochner com>]

would it make sense to add version sections to the preferences file?  
Parsing the
preference file would a bit more work, but one could separate the  
modified preferences
in a proper way from each other.

Extra benefit: One could use the same preference file with different  
(older) versions of
Wireshark, without any problem (if such a feature get's backported).

Something like this:

<version: 1.6.0>
...
</version: 1.6.0>
<version: 1.8.0>
...
</version: 1.8.0>

Regards
Kurt

> Hi.
>
> After upgrading my local wireshark to latest trunk I get some warnings
> from my preferences.
> I suspect someone rewrote the preference format without handling /
> converting old values?
>
> The user should not loose the preferences when upgrading, just because
> we changed the format.


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