Upgrading James

[Marc Chamberlin]

These may be more of the type of questions for some of the James developers to answer, but I thought I would start with the James users because they may have faced some of these issue also.... (And hopefully a few of the James developers are lurking ;-) on this group as well. )   I have installed the released version of James, version 1.2.1 and have configured it to handle a few users, some list servers, and a couple of custom mailets. Now, lets say I want to upgrade to one of the latest nightly builds, what procedures should I follow in order to preserve my existing configuration? Can I simply unzip the download zip files in place over the top of my existing James directories, or should I unzip to a separate directory? If I should do the latter, then what files from my previous James installation should I copy over into my new directories? I can certainly figure out a few of the more obvious ones, but am not sure I could guess at everything that I would need to do... Are there any guidelines published? ;-)   A related question, is there any plans to wrap the James installation process inside some  installation application, such as InstallShield for us handicapped Windows slaves, so as to make the installation of upgrades somewhat painless?   And a third question - Is there any expected time frame for the next release of James? I am mostly just curious and trying to plan ahead a bit... ;-)       Thanks again....   Marc...   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A man said unto the universe -  "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe  "I do not see where that creates in me a sense of an obligation."           - Stephen Crane