Petko, Thanks for your detailed response. I suspected as much and so I think I might bite the bullet and just run two installations in parallel - the old 2.0.13 and the latest. Thankfully I have sufficient disk space. I figure copying my pages over to the new install might allow me to incrementally test pieces at a time rather than just jump from one version to another.
Thanks again. Cheers, Patrick ------------------------------------------ Patrick E. McKnight, Ph.D. Department of Psychology George Mason University MSN 3F5, 4400 University Drive Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 703-993-8292 (office) 703-993-1359 (fax) [email protected] http://mres.gmu.edu On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Petko Yotov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 19 May 2010 23:35:13, Patrick McKnight wrote : >> I read through the various change logs from the pre-2.1 series through >> today but it seems as if there are so many changes I cannot discern >> whether my current implementation is actually upgradeable. Can anyone >> confirm that my upgrade can take place from 2.0 to 2.2 without many >> headaches? Thanks in advance for any tips/comments. > > Hello. Wow. No, unfortunately I cannot confirm that you can upgrade from 2.0 > to 2.2 without headaches. :-) > > Please *triple-check* that you have a full backup of your current working > installation. There are indeed a huge number of changes since 2.0.13 released > in 2005 (151 versions have been released). > > Then you should be able to install the new version, try to read through the > ReleaseNotes and the documentation in order to fix everything that is broken. > If it doesn't seem fixable, you can restore your previous setup from the > backup. > > The most important changes are outlined in the ReleaseNotes, in the sections > about Version 2.1.0 and Version 2.2.0. > > I suspect that the wiki pages will work mostly fine and you'll be able to > recover all your content, but that a number of configuration variables and > options have changed in the meantime and the wiki could look weird, broken or > even not function at all. Also some recipes could fail to work any more, but > there could be a more recent version in the cookbook. > > Or, there may be a better idea. You could also try to upgrade in a number of > steps, taking your time : > 1. upgrade to 2.1.0 (with everything fixed and working), > 2. upgrade to 2.1.27 (idem) last 2.1 stable > 3. upgrade to 2.2.0 (idem) first 2.2 stable > 4. upgrade to 2.2.16 (idem) > > and every time reading the release notes : > > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/ReleaseNotesArchive > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/ReleaseNotes > > >> By the way, I have been using pmwiki for 5 years and still going >> strong. It is a great wiki and I hope to continue using it for the >> next decade. > > PmWiki has more features now -- not sure if it is all good -- and more recipes > (plugins, modules). > > Good luck, > Petko > _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
