[Design] Re: [Dev] Proposal for 0.7 "mini-release" non-code deliverables

[Grant Baillie]

On Feb 21, 2006, at 11:53 , Alec Flett wrote:

> Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>> Hi Alec, Is "export/share to ics" an adequate data upgrade path if  
>> we're going to be pushing the latest and greatest? You'll have to  
>> go find the tickets for your shared collections, and your Cosmo  
>> password, too.
> That is a good question - perhaps what we need is a really bare  
> bones 0.6 -> 0.7alpha1 upgrade path (i.e. script, that you run when  
> starting chandler) for now, and then as schema evolution gets  
> smarter, we make more and more of that happen automatically?
>
> We could start by just being very very dumb - Open the database and  
> if the SCHEMA_VERSION is "121" (what it was in 0.6) then we do a  
> few manual upgrades, and then bump the schema to whatever it is for  
> 0.7alpha1. Then we start the rest of chandler.

Has the repository format changed? If so, it may be difficult to do  
this (i.e. essentially export from an old repository using newer code).

--Grant