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John Fader wrote:
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:22:20 -0800, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote: None. This purely affects what a database dump file looks like (giant pile of unreadable XML crap vs giant pile of unreadable mysql crap). Mirrors and those mining mediawiki datadumps care, ordinary users won't see any difference.
The idea (in my understanding) is to standardize the dump format to increase forward/backward compatibility. I don't have any problems with standardization, but of course, as John puts it, we're still going to have a lot of crap when it comes to database dumps, perhaps even more so with XML.
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