Re: 1.7.6 update to 1.8.2--Impossible?
I was finally able to update my 1.7.3 site to a 1.8.2. The task was difficult, and I doubt that anyone without considerable patience and extensive experience with mysql and shell would be able to accomplish such a feat. Clearly, the update scripts need an overhaul.
The biggest problem I encountered was with the comments fix. It took me hours to finally recover the old messages from my 1.7.3 forums. The problem was that the script was looking for non-existent columns in my old comments directory. Thankfully, I made backups of everything before running the scripts, and didn't lose anything.
This is an obvious and major flaw in the update scripts that ought to be immediately addressed.
The other major problem I had during installation was with the setup.sh script. It didn't work before, but magically worked today. I have no clue why or how. This problem should also be addressed with the wiki team.
Guys, no matter how great and wonderful tikiwiki is, if it's difficult for people to install it, it won't catch on. We really need to spend time on documentation and ensuring that the install instructions/scripts work. I consider myself a pretty resourceful guy when it comes to this stuff, but this update was DIFFICULT and extremely time-consuming (we're talking days here.)
If tikiwiki is to be successful, we will need to ensure that it installation is fairly easy. We can assume some level of knowledge, but not advanced skills like editing scripts or working with shell. Please!