That's a different command: "weectl station upgrade-skins".
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 12:21 PM Vince Skahan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/9ecbf21a-a008-4067-8bb1-5b2b69680018n%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/CAPq0zEAw0R4Oov2gTrneRWiS81QxZjhefwp%2B%3Dfz_3JwgOGcRow%40mail.gmail.com.
