Thanks Geoff,

Basically I am being lazy, in that I wanted a simple .zip installation to be
easy applied! :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Bowers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 June 2003 12:37
To: FarCry Developers
Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: b126 Beta


Neil,

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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