On Sep 22, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Adam Heath wrote: > On 09/22/2010 03:33 PM, BJ Freeman wrote: >> Am it to gather by this that you can do a direct SVN update and all your >> customization continue to work? >> say from 9.04 to 10.04 > > Ofbiz has never supported upgrades. I agree with BJ here. > > Database tables can change. Not all changes are automatic. Such changes are > not listed in a simple place(in the source). > > Values in tables can change. No upgrade conversions are provided(again, in a > simple place). > > To solve this, requires running older ofbiz on older database, doing a test > upgrade to each and every new version, and then seeing what is different. > This is a *very* hard problem, not easy to automate, and takes smart people > lots of time. This is not something you can just force on the community. No > one has sat down to do this very busy, hard work, so it hasn't yet been done. > > If you run trunk, then it is up to you to solve any per-version upgrade > problems. > > However, official releases should really have appropriate, detailed, upgrade > instructions.
This sounds like a decent business plan... If I remember right, upgrades are one way Compiere (or more specifically, Jorg Janke) made money early on (before the sell-out). -David
