I take your point about downgrading, and improvements to the data format; but in this case, shouldn't the 1.8 software modify the 'pages' tag to be compatible at the same time that it modifies the id property to the new string format, so that a world previously playing in 1.7 can be continued under 1.8? Otherwise, this will break a lot of existing worldmaps, map editors, and map generators.
Steve Shipway
I take your point about downgrading, and improvements to the data format; but in this case, shouldn't the 1.8 software modify the 'pages' tag to be compatible at the same time that it modifies the id property to the new string format, so that a world previously playing in 1.7 can be continued under 1.8? Otherwise, this will break a lot of existing worldmaps, map editors, and map generators.