Have you tried the updaters that we have released thus far?
We endeavour to provide as simple a migration as possible -- we have a lot of apps running on older builds and simple updates to schemas and the like are crucial to keeping our workload down.
The content type management stuff is particularly cool -- we've upgraded to include ALTER type as well as add/delete properties. Well worth looking into (ADMIN>>COAPI>>Types).
It may be simple for us to do a roll-up updater that just has all the updaters linked from one page for each major release. Check the existing updaters to see what i mean.
When Brendan releases a new build to farcry.daemon website (eg. the current beta release) it means its running on about 5 sites in production and is usually very stable.
Typically we only label a build in CVS if it is generally accepted amongst drivers that the build will not break developers apps -- we try and work to a policy of *never* checking in breaking code full stop, but none of us are perfect :)
We've frozen "official" releases 'cos we know there are currently "known issues" and/or obvious gaps in the functionality we've added. When the functionality is completed, tested and ready for "content authors" we'll release another "official" build.
I think people on this list should consider BETA releases as stable enough for development but not appropriate for "content authors".
Best regards,
-- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/
PS. It's worth noting that daily changes can be watched through http://code.daemon.com.au/
Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote:
I am not looking for an easy point and click all in all, just a simple updater procedure for new builds....otherwise you could be looking at downtime and it also leads to errors.
I concur with your other suggestions though.
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 June 2003 11:31 To: FarCry Developers Subject: [farcry-dev] RE: b126 Beta
Just my 2 cents but
I would prefer the guys at daemon concentrate on implementing features, functionality and squashing bugs than making an installer that simplifies an already fairly simple install procedure. I think an outline of table changes and at most the raw sql to convert the tables changed is sufficient (and maybe this could be contributed from the community). This is after all an opensource project and compared to most opensource projects they have already gone above and beyond. Commercial CMS's exists with lovely nice installers (and some without) for those who need them. Personally give me bleeding edge features over hand holding.
Thanks,
Michael.
-----Original Message----- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 June 2003 11:01 To: FarCry Developers Subject: [farcry-dev] RE: b126 Beta
Any news on an actual rollout date for the official release? Also, will the installer be cumulitive where we would not have to do loads and loads of tweaks to get the new build working?
Ideally a straightforward install via one-click.
N
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