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Architecture / Installation


Re: A better upgrade process?

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Hey Rick;

Well I do agree with you. Upgrading is a pain especially if you have a bunch of sites. Your method is pretty much what has to be done it seems.

I notice that the last upgrade does offer the one main changed file. That is nice. For minor upgrades this would seem to be the way to go. Also we can go to the cvs list and see what pages are being worked on and changed.

I would think an easy way would be to have the upgrade as a mod. You click on upgrade and the changed files would be uploaded. Now some developer will have to burn the midnight oil to set it up but then things would be dandy. Do a simple file compare and just have the required files changed. This would be great if you have not done a lot of custom changes. I have seen this in other CMS but it really only works for an out of the box install.

Of course that would stomp on any changes that we have made. So as you say you would have to up load changes made manually. But first you would also have to see if the files changed by us have been changed in the upgrade. If this is the case then we must change the upgraded files to what we need. Oh boy....

As far as the TPL's go you can put them into the templates folder for your sites custom theme. This way all custom changes would be retained. The same would be true for the css file. However, you are still faced with the problem of the possibility that some of the TPL's have been modified. This is less likely in the TPL's but they do change as well.

So I really do not see a simple answer. I guess this is why Webkeepers get the big bucks. lol

I have not looked into it but is there anyone working on this sort of thing?

A few thoughts, James

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