Re: Re: Mac OS X Installer Progress 20050911-1700

Andy McKay <andy-/awGbKECNgO/3pe1ocb+swC/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.installers
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Mark F. Murphy wrote:
> At 9:22 AM +0200 9/12/05, Alexander Limi wrote:
> 
>> Well, as long as it is clearly explained how to do it. I do think 
>> people will expect the installer to upgrade their instances when 
>> installing, though.
> 
> 
> We've never had the policy of auto-updating existing instances.

+1, auto-updating is not a good idea, especially if the update process 
is not simple eg Plone 2 to Plone 2.1.

> Remember, many Mac clients use Plone in production environments.  To 
> upgrade their instance without them doing any kind of testing would be 
> problematic for many.
> 
> Most production environments would make a copy of their production 
> instance, perform an upgrade on that instance, test it out, and if all 
> is well upgrade their production instance.... or if it does not go well 
> in the test instance, figure out what issues need to be resolved, fix 
> the issues, then push.
> 
> mark
> 

-- 
   Andy McKay
   Enfold Systems, LLC
   http://www.enfoldsystems.com


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