Michael E. Hancock wrote:
From: "Podz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Matt Mullenweg wrote:
didn’t involve de-activating plugins
Authors need to tell people to wrap their fucntions properly. It has
been posted before. It also means that the core fail more gracefuly - a
theme problem right now causes a blank screen and a post to the forum
for instance.
and deleting files.
The 'official' instructions have never said to delete files, and have
always said to overwrite. The deleting came about because of very high
levels of overwriting problems. It's written to save posts.
Interestingly, just after the 2.0 release, Mr. Sharma wrote
http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Carthik/Five_Step_Upgrade that recommends
deactivating plugins but overwriting files.
Can we come to a consensus about this (i.e. deactivating plugins and
deleting files)?
Both suggestions are made to work around external problems. Files are
deleted because people have a high tendency to upload files incorrectly
and incompletely. Plugins are deactivated because so many of them do
things that pretty much guarantee that they will break whenever WP
internals change. Personally, I use rsync and a few carefully selected
plugins and can upgrade all of my sites with a single button press.
That's not typical, of course, but it illustrates how easy WP is to
upgrade when you have the proper upload tool and don't use crackheaded
plugins. :-)
Ryan
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