On Wed, 21 Jul 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote:
I have a bit of a deja-vu feeling, but with a July snapshot I
(still?)
see the behavior that when I save a dataset to the gdtb format, the
following happens:
- I'm being shown a compression setting, which doesn't seem to have any
effect, however. I kind of remember that compression is not intended for
gdtb, but that we discussed at some point that it should then be greyed out.
- I also get a choice about which binary gdtb format to use, and I
believe that was supposed to be only a transitory thing and should not
be offered anymore.
The two points are linked: older gdtb files were zipfiles, and if we
were offering old formats for compatibility we couldn't just disable
the compression-level choice when gdtb was selected.
That's now updated in git.
* We don't offer the legacy gdtb options any more.
* We disable the compression choice when gdtb is selected.
* We put up a warning on a gdtb save, pointing out that such files
can't be read by gretl < 2020b.
I guess we can dispense with the warning at some point, but 2020a is
not really ancient yet.
Allin