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Re: A better upgrade process?

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> First, a huge thank you to the TIKI dev folks. I've been using TIKI for a while now and it is both feature rich and very stable — my two priorites for any software. While I'm happy to see the continuing development (I see that 1.9.4 and 1.9.5 are already scheduled for release), I'm at a loss as to how I'm supposed to keep my TIKI up-to-date.
>
> My only issue is with the upgrade process. The current process (as I understand it, and please correct me if I'm wrong) is basically:
> #Grab the ZIP/TAR (which is basically a full, new install)
> #Somehow figure out which files have changed (out of the 3,000+ files!)
> #Manually forward-port my customizations (TPLs, PHPs, etc.) into the new TIKI files.
> Is this the process that everyone else uses? How in the world do you figure out which files have really changed (from step 2, above)?
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> Has the dev team thought about:
> *Releasing "updates" instead of full installs?
I mean, for a 1.9.3.1 --> 1.9.3.2 upgrade, why make users download 20MBs of GIFs, when only a few TPLs and PHPs have changed?
> *Producing a detailed list of exactly which files have changed?
This would be very helpful as I dig though the files to detemine which "new" files I really need.
> *Using an installer that would do all this automatically?
>
> Just my suggestions!
>
> -Rick

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