Kathey Marsden wrote:
First of all I want to say that there is a great dependence on soft
upgrade in the installed user base so if the community decided to
deprecate soft upgrade (which I am strongly against) it would need to be
just that a deprecation and some solution to the current usage models
would need to be found in advance. So this is not a 10.2 discussion.
I am not suggesting that we should deprecate soft upgrade. I was just
reacting to your claims that soft upgrade was providing a lot of
wonderful stuff that is actually provided by automatic upgrade (soft or
hard).
I think it is good to have soft upgrade as part of an upgrade path in
order to be able to revert to the previous version in case of problems.
I am bit more concerned about recommending users to run in soft
upgrade more or less permanently since this mode is much less tested
than a standard configuration.
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Øystein
