Create a mechanism that upgrades old metadata database layouts to the new one.

2025-10-07T21:56:26Z

Changing the metadata layout in Store::Digest will make it incompatible with already-initialized stores.

Create a mechanism that upgrades old metadata database layouts to the new one.

Detect what version the metadata layout is and whine at the user to upgrade it on their own time.

Intertwingler MVP

Overhaul Store::Digest.

We don't really have time to write migration code and we're not sure how many there are out there in the wild.

We don't want to take people by surprise by forcing them into upgrading their data store.