{"id":1240,"date":"2004-05-15T21:25:51","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T20:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=3"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:18","slug":"file-format-between-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2004\/05\/15\/file-format-between-versions\/","title":{"rendered":"File Format between versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I&#8217;ve been doing recently is to rewrite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/sqleditor\/\">SQLEditor<\/a> to use <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/cocoa\">cocoa<\/a> instead of java&#8217;s swing toolkit. This gives a much better application for people using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\">Macintoshes<\/a>, but it has meant a file format change. The old format relied on <a href=\"http:\/\/java.sun.com\">java<\/a> serialization which isn&#8217;t possible under cocoa.<\/p>\n<p>The key question is this: are users willing to swap the superior performance and extra features for the hassle of exporting and reimporting their data?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I&#8217;ve been doing recently is to rewrite SQLEditor to use cocoa instead of java&#8217;s swing toolkit. This gives a much better application for people using Macintoshes, but it has meant a file format change. The old format relied on java serialization which isn&#8217;t possible under cocoa. The key question is this: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sqleditor","category-writing-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}