[tomboy-list] Reminder: 0.5.x versions of Tomboy are development versions (NOT STABLE)

[Boyd Timothy]

I just committed Chris' latest patch to fix this problem into SVN
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395100).  If you have a
chance, please give it a shot.  It will be included in the next
development and stable releases of Tomboy (0.5.5 & 0.6.0).

So far, I haven't hit any of the previous problems seen in bulleted
lists.  Great work Chris!

-Boyd

On 1/29/07, Boyd Timothy <btimothy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd just like to remind everyone that 0.5.x releases of Tomboy are
> development versions (not stable).  Tomboy 0.6.0 will be the next
> stable version and will be released with GNOME 2.18
> (http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen).
>
> There have been a few people who have hit the problem of their notes
> being corrupted after using the new bulleted list feature.  While it
> would have been ideal to not commit the bulleted-list feature until it
> was tested more, we had to get it in before GNOME 2.18 feature freeze.
>  We've still got a little bit of time to work out the kinks, and I
> believe Chris is getting close on it.
>
> For the record, I use bulleted lists extensively and have never run
> into this problem.  I believe the problem happens when you create
> notes with bulleted lists in 0.5.x, open the same note(s) in a Tomboy
> 0.4.x release, and then reopen the note(s) in 0.5.x again.
>
> If you do choose to use 0.5.x, please make regular backups of your
> ~/.tomboy directory.  And don't forget to submit a new bug if you run
> into any problems.
>
> If you run into an exception where Tomboy crashes when starting
> Tomboy, searching notes, or creating a new note with the following
> exception text, you've hit this problem: Unhandled Exception:
> System.Xml.XmlException: Multiple document element was
> detected.
>
> To fix your note(s), you've got to shut Tomboy down and modify the
> offending note(s) so that the closing </note-content> element is
> *after* any <link> or <link-item> elements.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> -Boyd
>