Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Encrypted Wallet Backward Compatibility

From: Gregory Maxwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:30:12 -0400

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Douglas Huff <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> On Jul 4, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote:
>> RE: breaking backup scripts:  if they use the backupwallet  RPC
>> command, then they will Just Work.
>
> I'd go a step further and say that, since import/export is planned to get merged at about the same time, intentionally breaking unsafe/badly designed backup mechanisms is actually desirable.

Silently breaking them, not so much.

Or do you think people are going to notice that they've started
backing up a zero byte file?