[Seaside] upgrading methods

[Philippe Marschall]

2007/2/23, Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com>:
> Philippe Marschall wrote:
> > FileLibrary is part of Seaside since October last year and since then
> > has been developed inside Seaside. Merging it is not a clever idea.
>
> Clever or not, there are several comments on this ml that suggested
> merging was preferable to loading. Don't know who said it. In fact, I
> 'loaded' my first upgrade test of Seaside/Magritte/Pier. It was
> disastrous. At least now I have the latest Seaside running ;-)

I feel there is some confusion about loading versus merging.
Loading replaces the code in you image with the code of the version
you load. This is similar to checking out a specific CVS/SVN revision.
Merging tries to figure out what changed between the code in the image
and the code of a version and only load those changes. Although this
sounds like a good idea, figuring out takes much more time than just
loading everything. This is more like a CVS/SVN update.


to sum up:
Loading is the right thing unless you have a branch or local changes.
You neither need to load nor merge file library.

Cheers
Philippe

> But, be that as it may, thanks for the help, I really appreciate it!
> You've been very helpful.
>
>
> brad
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