[Seaside] upgrading methods

[Brad Fuller]

Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 2007/2/23, Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com>:
>> Philippe Marschall wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> yep, I got that. Thanks.
>>
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>> Why? It's a separate package. Is it now included in another package?
> 
> It is included in seaside, last October the classes were moved into
> Seaside. Since then the development of the stand-alone package has
> stopped and only the classes in the Seaside package have been
> improved. Pier and Seaside will no longer work with the old,
> stand-alone version of FileLibrary.

Thanks. I'm sure others know, but just looking thru archives leads one 
to believe that you need to load it.

Maybe it should be taken out of the seaside repo and be independent.

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