Hi, I just upgraded from 0.5 to 0.6, here's a small report:
The installation was pretty easy, I already had nearly all of the Perl modules that I needed. Being incurably lazy, I decided to use the same Apache installation as I used for 0.5, and as far as I can tell, that isn't a problem. One thing I noticed was that the 0.6 documentation tells you to start the server with: /my/chosen/Apache/binary -d $PWD -f $PWD/conf/httpd.conf ...but I found that I could omit the -f option and it would still start. Is this option necessary? I already had a database with it's meta_* tables from a 0.5 installation. I ran configure.pl using my 0.5 registry file, and it ran without any obvious problems. Then I started up marteditor. It already knew about the databases that I was using under 0.5. I did an import on one of my datasets. It warned me that they were in 0.5 format and asked me if I wanted to convert to 0.6. I said yes. As far as I can see, the attributes and filters that existed before exist still. The only funny thing was that everything that I had previously marked as hidden is now gone. Is it still there but invisible, or is really gone? Under 0.5, I was getting a problem with marteditor, whereby some attributes were visible in marteditor but not in martview. That was the real reason why I upgraded so smartly, to see if these attributes would become visible to martview. They don't, worst luck. I tried various tricks, like creating new attributes and even new attribute collections in the marteditor, but none of these are visible in the martview. Is it time for me to stop throwing good time after bad and recreate everything from scratch, using "naieve"? It will probably cost me 3 days to get things back to the way they were. Cheers, David Croft.
