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I also think that it's a pity the designers didn't do a bit more to
maintain database compatibility between versions. I don't think
it's too hard, provided that the original design makes database
compatibility a priority.<br>
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I work for a radio company, and we had this dilemma in 2002 when
moving into the SDR arena, and a decision was taken to use tags with
database items. The radio app, and the programming app will use the
tags they understand, and ignore the ones they don't, using defaults
for those items. The programming app will also read a much newer
radio, and save its configuration, even though it doesn't understand
the tags that it reads. That scheme works extremely well, and has
resulted in backwards and forwards quasi compatibility for the last
12 years.<br>
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73, Greg, ZL3IX<br>
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I find myself needing to upgrade from mRX PS
3.2.10 to 3.2.17 and see that at 3.2.12 there
was an instruction to reset the database.<br>
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<div>Actually Ray (K9DUR if I recall) wrote a program to do
this for PowerSDR but then decided he was only going to
support the Flex version of PowerSDR. </div>
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<div>Still, it would be relatively easy to add a simple
version number to the database so that the software would
look at the version number an not try to load an
incompatible version of the database thus ending the
continuing stream of, "I just loaded the new version and
it must be broken because now PowerSDR is going all kinds
of weird stuff it isn't supposed to do and how do I fix
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<div>Or, better still, take each section (your calibration
maybe?) and give each section a version number. Now the
software can load only those portions of the database that
are still compatible. OK, you would have to reenter SOME
stuff but not everything. That is only marginally more
difficult than the step above but still within reason.</div>
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<div>But I guess the idea of a version number in the DB is
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