[pmwiki-users] Re: good upgrade practices (was: {$UrlPage})

Neil Herber nospam at eton.ca
Sun Oct 9 15:58:35 CDT 2005


At 2005-10-09  03:16 PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
>On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 12:32:04PM -0400, Neil Herber wrote:
> > At 2005-10-09  09:52 AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
> > >More to the point, it's sometimes a good idea to remove (or rename)
> > >the wikilib.d/ directory entirely, and get a fresh copy from the latest
> > >distribution.
> >
> > I think a note to this effect needs to be added to the upgrade
> > instructions. ...
>
>Well, I don't think they belong in the upgrade instructions in general,
>because this sort of thing actually happens very rarely.  Instead, I
>think that whenever a file is removed from wikilib.d/ in the distribution
>I'll be sure to put a note about it in the release notes for a short
>time thereafter.
>
>Would that work?

I think that would work perfectly. The release notes I have seen at 
pmwiki.org seem to be a cumulative, top-posted list, so such warning 
would stay there and would be visible to anyone upgrading over one of 
the affected releases.



Neil

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