Tourettes, we all appreciate devs time and effort. However, I think you are asking too much to expect users to just lose all their hard work in setting MP 0.2.3 up. "normal" end users will not want to do this kind of technical file copying and making sure they get all the files they need. Especially as exactly which files you need is based on rumours in forums.
Why not just write a small tool that simply backs up all users settings AS A MINIMUM so that users can go back to 0.2.3 once they realise they have lost EVERYTHING by installing RC1.
Then have an option which lets you restore these user files over the RC1 files. ESPECIALLY THE VIDEO INFO AND TV CHANNELS AND ASSOCIATED THUMBS. The rest can be re-scanned fairly easily, eg music as mp3 files hold all the info.
Put a disclaimer on this tool if you really want to.
Devs must listen to the users on this one, please. Its vital for end users to be able to keep all their hard work..Please understand this. Most users are not interested in repeating this work even if you think its trivial. Its certainly not trivial to me and I really dont want to upgrade until a migration tool is available.
Please make a migration tool someone. this is very important to a lot of users..... |