Re: Ordering of elements within index.xml

On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 21:42:28 +0100, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2019, 18:19:28 CET schrieb Robert Krawitz:
>> Does anyone recall why the member groups are listed last in the
>> index.xml file?
>
> I don't, but I were to guess, I'd say that was
> happenstance. Changing the order should be possible even without a
> file version bump.

If we do change it, it should be a version bump.  Ordering does
matter.

> As always when I didn't look at the code: please test before you
> actually change the order. I don't want anyone breaking stuff
> because I didn't bother verifying my stipulations ;-)

I'm not actually that eager to make this change right now; it would
make my script useless for older files, and what I have does work and
performs reasonably well.  It's just a somewhat odd situation.
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