[Bitcoin-development] Encrypted Wallet Backward Compatibility

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Douglas Huff <dhuff at jrbobdobbs.org> 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?