Re: imp/stable vs. imp3/unstable
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 12:55:30PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > My understanding is that imp (the version from stable) will not work in
> > stable+1 if php4 is upgraded (which is likely to happen).
>
> What goes wrong? I have not tested it.
Unfortunately I don't recall exactly. imp was complaining about a missing
function (IIRC gc) when going to the url with a browser. This was after
upgrading apache/mysql/php from stable to unstable.
> > I think some kind of migration path should be added to imp3.
>
> Yes, I also think there is a wishlist bug against imp3 for this. The
> problem however is that such a upgrade path is not very easy to perform.
> It is quite easy to have a broken database at the end and that is not
> a good thing.
>
> That is the reason why I have decided to make a new package (imp3 instead
> of imp) and not to make an upgrade path.
>
> imp3 is very different from imp2 and they share very little code.
I understand. It makes sense as long as you are sure imp will keep
working. Hopefully my problem was local.
Christophe
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