I concur with those who mention the difficulty of upgrading. I'm running
MW 1.26.0 in a single-click installation on AWS.
Other products I use -- including open source -- have a graceful and
online update process.
MW is built by developers for developers. I'm not a developer and every
time I upgrade I'm scared. It's a fraught exercise.
I have a few things that don't work, and I have no idea why. For
example, file uploads stopped working somewhere along the way but I
don't know when exactly. I didn't change file permissions; although I've
fiddled with them endlessly since. I suspect it's something in the base
AWS stack, but what? [Permissions seem to be an area of discussion with
different falvours of Linux.]
I would like to install Parsoid (why isn't it in the base install?) but
nobody can offer insight into how to install it at docroot when you only
have docroot access. I hired a Linux pro to help with that one and he
threw his hands up. [Installation is easy, but how do you start it up
automatically?]
Why is the mobile frontend an add-on and not the default? It's 2015...
Quite a few extensions have gone to a DevOps approach of continuous
development and release, but how do I know when to update them? There is
no online notifiction.
All of these and more point to the legacy and Dev nature of MW.
David
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Re: What PHP version do you use? (Chris Koerner)
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