[Encore] Upgrading from 3.3.4 to 5.0

[Joe Lizzi]

kevijeps at telusplanet.net wrote:
> Joe
> As far as I know I'm afraid you will have to do the full upgrade routine in 
> order to do it safely.
> The only other way is to rebuild the spaces in a blank V5 Database and then 
> cut 'n paste the details.
> Hopefully others will have better suggestions.
>
>   

That's what I was afraid of. *sigh* Oh well.

> Out of curiosity why are you going to use V5?
> What parts of V5 do you need that V4 doesn't have?
>
> Ciao
> KJ
>
>   

Well, for starters, since this is being used by the language labs, 
having the "language packs" (and the other language changes) is very 
useful. It also looks like it handles firewalls and the like better. On 
top of that, at least from what I can tell, documentation on installing 
and running v5 is much easier to come by then v4 (I'm probably missing 
something, though). It also looks like v5, despite being beta, is fairly 
stable, given that it hasn't been updated since Nov 2006.

Having said all of that, however, I'm not married to using v5. If that 
should wait a bit, and I instead use v4 right now, the world isn't going 
to end. ;)

-- 
Joe Lizzi
System Administrator, Rutgers University
Office of Instructional Research and Technology
732-445-6305