On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't really find updates to be terribly difficult. You mostly just > check out (or download) the newest version, and run update.php. This > is probably more difficult without shell access. With Wordpress upgrades it's even easier: two clicks and you're done (okay, except if you run multi-user WP setups). Same for extension updates. It even *notifies* you for updates, especially for security-critical - if you don't follow the -announce lists and subsequently never update, your wiki can and will be open to any security issue coming up.
>> -I don't want to go to my ftp to download my local settings file, add a few >> lines then reupload it. This is caveman-like behavior for the modern >> internet. > > Get a host that supports SSH. Use VI, Emacs, nano, pico, etc. HAHAHA, sorry but this way of thinking is stone-age. Who are we to require our users to get more expensive hosting AND knowledge of VI/Emacs (a newbie most likely won't have HEARD of ssh, vi and emacs!) just for being able to modify the core settings of a wiki without having the FTP extra work? Come on, it's so easy to make a web-based settings editor. Mighta even be lots easier to just move all settings stuff except MySQL data into the DB. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
