[pmwiki-users] Upgrade Instructions for Mac Users

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 06:47:29PM -1000, Sivakatirswami wrote:
> On Mar 29, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >Could you please verify that doing a recursive copy on a mac actually
> >erases (replaces) subfolders with exactly what the source tree has in
> >it, as opposed to simply overwriting duplicate files?
> 
> Absolutely, though were I do this now on OS X from the terminal, we 
> would probably get expected unix behavior at the level.. But no Mac 
> user will ever use the terminal for such a simple operation. 
> Application upgrades usually go like this: click once to download, 
> system will auto decompress, auto mount a disk image.. you then just 
> drag and drop. done.

Two thoughts:
1.  Obviously *some* Mac users will use the terminal for such a
simple operation.  :-) :-) PmWiki has used this particular upgrade 
mechanism since its inception, and you're the first Mac user to 
report any sort of problem with it.

2.  What can we do to make upgrades better for Mac admins?  I don't
think we can easily split pub/ at this point, and making distributions
without local/ or cookbook/ might cause more overall confusion than they 
save.

Pm