El 5/1/09 2:37 PM, George Herbert escribió:
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Brion Vibberbrion@wikimedia.org wrote:
You should never need to do this -- upgrading directly from any previous MediaWiki version to the latest is the recommended process and should always work unless something's broken.
That may be true by 1.5, but I had a set of 1.3.x installations that I tested some upgrades with to the then-current level 2 years ago and it barfed and died repeatedly and consistently. I asked here and was told to do incremental one-step upgrades.
If you encounter such issues again, please let us know so we can make sure the updater is fixed...
Right now the main potential problems are with old non-Unicode installations (some languages pre-1.5) or weirdly funkified MySQL charset issues (especially if the experimental charset options got picked on the older install). And I'd love to get those fixed to work reliably too -- the software should be able to detect and sort those conditions out more easily than the user can!
-- brion