[ardour-users] automation portability inquiry

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 26 October 2006 at 22:00, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/26/06, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 20:02 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > Paul,
> > >    I would be disappointed if that was the case. I haven't done all
> > > that many sessions in Ardour but it would be a drag to not have them
> > > work anymore. I expect that there are other folks out there with far
> > > bigger problems than I would have though.
> > >
> > >    If for some reason it doesn't make sense to put conversion into
> > > Ardour 2.0 is there a possibility that someone on the development team
> > > could provide a conversion program so that older sessions could be
> > > converted to 2.0 format before we load them?
> >
> > this option would be my preference, yes.
> 
> Mine also. If it turns out that for some reason someone cannot go to
> Ardour 2 for awhile then they can keep an unconverted version of their
> session files and still use Ardour 0.99/1.0.
> 
> Way down the road sometime, once everything is a bit more proven, you
> can always integrade the conversion program anyway, but in keeping
> with your love of the command line I think a conversion program is a
> good way to go.

Would there be some way for Ardour 2 to detect that no conversion had 
been done, and conversion was needed, then inform the user? 

Thanks...

--
Kevin