On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Jim Penny wrote: > I would not care to be the fellow who had a mission critical application, > who 'upgraded', and found his site no longer working, with no way of > backing up to a working configuration. While I agree with you in general (I wonder if it is worth a bug report or if you should volunteer to package zope2.3 which could coexist with zope) I have to say that somebody who does an upgrade of a mission critical box without testing it on a test plattform is not worth its money.
> For example, I serve technical drawings to essentially everyone in my > company. Loss of this would cost thousands of US dollars a day, > particularly as we no longer have a way to duplicate oversize drawings. > (It would also cause me much grief :-( .) Well the money for a simple testing machine would be peenuts, wouldn't it? > Upgrade compatiblity problems would be particularly a problem for > 2.3 users in that when 2.4 comes from unstable to testing, no 2.3 > .deb will be available, at all. 2.1 users could always go back to > the potato package. 2.2 users, well, I hope things went well for them. Mission critical machines should run under stable (potato). Kind regards Andreas.