Opened 10 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#767 accepted defect
First point under "do this to upgrade" in release notes is something to do after upgrading
| Reported by: | Mike Linksvayer | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | documentation | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Mike Linksvayer | Parent Tickets: |
Description
There seems to be a missing step:
Do this to upgrade
- Make sure to run ./bin/python setup.py develop --upgrade && ./bin/gmg dbupdate after upgrading.
You have to search back to 0.3.2 to find actual (but poorly formatted) instructions. This is a pain for someone upgrading for the first time, especially not knowing what they're doing. I forget everything between releases, so it is the first time everytime.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 10 years ago
| Status: | new → accepted |
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comment:2 by , 8 years ago
| Cc: | added |
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Well, #755 is merged long ago, and the ./configure && make stuff got overhauled very recently even, but I think that a make upgrade may not be the right solution. For one thing, we should be getting to the point where (not all) users are deploying from git at all, and usually running from a system packaged solution.
That still leaves how to deal with database migrations and any intermediary steps. But that would be a large step forward.
I agree that the current upgrade steps are not ideal... but not totally sure what would be best to improve these instructions. Maybe linking to the release notes?
A "make upgrade" would be better, and that exists in the pyconfigure branch, but it's not the "official method of doing things" until #755 is merged.