On 8 February 2012 20:00, Bill McGonigle <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/08/2012 09:46 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> * If you can't do a seemless upgrade, you move on to parallel installs >> like we are doing with mediawiki. Announce and try and get people to >> realize the flow and that they need to upgrade. t to users? > > I'm kinda wishing rpm could handle concurrent versions now...
One of the big issues with concurrent versions is that the software itself most of the time does not deal with "concurrent" versions any better than anything else. The hacks that were trying to be done in mediawiki for the longest time sort of worked except when they didn't and the basic word from upstream was "well we don't expect a person to be able to run two different versions on the same system. Get another and quit being crazy." The same with other software. Systems are treated like ram these days by developers: It is cheap for them to spin up extra boxes so it should be for you too (and if it isn't.. then you can try paying them to listen to you :( ). > -Bill > > > -- > Bill McGonigle, Owner > BFC Computing, LLC > http://bfccomputing.com/ > Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE > Email, IM, VOIP: [email protected] > VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf > Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle > > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
