Isn't having 'upgrade' a good thing for the case where folks want to 
upgrade the core skins to the newer version ?

On Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 5:06:55 AM UTC-8 Tom Keffer wrote:

> I suppose we could not introduce `weectl station upgrade` until it's 
> needed.
>
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 4:53 AM matthew wall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > On Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 1:24:47 PM UTC-5 [email protected] 
>> wrote:
>> > On Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 5:49:11 AM UTC-8 Tom Keffer wrote:
>> > ... with the upcoming Version 5: you can reinstall with pip as many 
>> times as you want. Just don't 
>> > run "weectl station upgrade" afterwards.
>> >
>> > Confused.
>> > I thought you 'always' needed to run "weectl station upgrade" after a 
>> v5 pip install so that the data 
>> > directory always lines up with what pip installed into the code 
>> directory.
>>
>> the intent is that a user should *never* have to run 'weectl station 
>> upgrade'
>>
>> as long as weewx remains backward-compatible, the only time you should 
>> have to upgrade your configuration is (1) when a non-backward-compatible 
>> change is introduced (signaled by a major version number change), (2) when 
>> a new feature is introduced that requires some non-default configuration 
>> (e.g., if you want to update a skin), or (3) if you want your config to 
>> contain the latest syntax/naming/conventions with no older patterns that 
>> require backward-compatibliity from the weewx codebase.
>>
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