[Encore] Upgrading from 3.3.4 to 5.0

[Joe Lizzi]

Trond Pettersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Looks like I'll have to do that anyway. Lots of stuff broke when I
>> upgraded from 4.01 to 5. Oops. (Glad I backed up everything.) Supposedly
>> (from what I'm told) there was no custom code in there, but the client
>> popped up with a bunch of "Sorry, a little error occured" in every
>> single frame (except the welcome box).
>>
>> I'm not about to pour through 1.8Megs of code at the moment to figure
>> out what went wrong,
>
> Just out of curiosity: did you run the upgrade in small chunks of code 
> at a time?
>
> It is VERY important that the commands and verbs are applied in the 
> order in which they appear in the patch (automating the process or 
> executing/copy+paste too many lines of code at a time may break it). 
> If the upgrade-process is carried out as specified in the patch's 
> header-comment, there is no reason why it shouldn't work on a "clean" 
> 4.01...
>
> -T
>
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Yup. Spent about an hour of cutting and pasting. No one else using the 
system at the time, either.  I watched for errors as I pasted in each 
section. It's possible, obviously, that I may have missed something, but 
I don't think so.

*shrug*

Anyway, it's not a big deal. After talking to the main admin, she thinks 
it might be better just to have a "clean" 5.0 running anyway, and just 
reimplement things piece-by-piece. Allows for easier cleanup, and 
perhaps they can take better advantage of the new interface this way.

On a secondary note, there *really* needs to be a way to just import 
patches directly.... my wrist hurt after a while. :)

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