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. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-development" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/26942509-a85b-46b3-8d44-71ba329c811fn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/26942509-a85b-46b3-8d44-71ba329c811fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/9ecbf21a-a008-4067-8bb1-5b2b69680018n%40googlegroups.com.
