Cheers, Steve. I know the time invested will ultimately be worthwhile and I suppose actually reading the professional Plone dev book (instead of just skimming through looking at the bits that I interested in at that moment it time).
Have already built a nice, growing intranet solution, I'm dreading deleting the File system and running a fresh install but as you say, teh benefits will be there in the end. Steve McMahon wrote: > > Hi Finlay, > > Don't overestimate the learning curve on this. Read Martin's tutorial > <http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/buildout>, spend a couple of > hours experimenting, and you're likely to have this down cold. > > I do think you'll probably want to do a fresh install, then transfer > your data and custom products (they'll just go in the products > folder). But from that point on, it gets easier. > > Steve > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Finlay Boo > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In the past I've handled my Plone upgrades using the zipped releases, >> updating what need to be updated over FTP, restarting zope and then >> updating >> to the latest version via the ZMI. My site using several custom >> 'old-style' >> products none of which are eggified. (I have installed a couple of >> products >> using easy_install though). >> >> I have one zeo server which serves 4 zeo clients on OSX server. >> >> The installer/ buildout only releases is a bit daunting and I'm worried >> that >> I'll end up getting left behind on this and future Plone releases. Is it >> likely I'll need to completely redeploy, configure my site and my custom >> products? If that's what I need to do then fine but it seems like a >> lengthy >> learning curve lies ahead. >> >> Is any documentation planned on moving such installations over to >> buildout >> rather than fresh installs? >> >> Thanks >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://n2.nabble.com/Upgrading-to-3.2-in-production-environment-tp2290007p2290007.html >> Sent from the Installation, Setup, Upgrades mailing list archive at >> Nabble.com. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Setup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup >> > > > > -- > > Steve McMahon > Reid-McMahon, LLC > [email protected] > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Setup mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Upgrading-to-3.2-in-production-environment-tp2290007p2293567.html Sent from the Installation, Setup, Upgrades mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
