Re: [Gramps-devel] Advice sort on policy for OS X packaging

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

Gramps does not upgrade .grdb files directly.

If you install 3.0.x, after 2.x, all you will see is an empty family tree.
So users might be afraid of this, because suddenly they see no data.

However, they can create a new family tree, then they can import the .grdb
file, which will be automatically copied, and upgraded (so the original is
not changed, allowing fallback to gramps 2.x).

There are some problems with this upgrade process on the copied grdb on some
boxes (with /temp not accessible as error mostly). This is not a big problem
as GRAMPS 2.2.3/4 (???) saves a .backup.gramps file on exit automatically,
so you can import your data from this instead of from the .grdb file. The
/temp access problem was further a problem of the user deleting the original
environment, which on an upgrade with macports will not happen (that is, you
do not delete the .gramps directory and old environment, do you?).

Benny

2008/5/28 Richard Taylor <rjt...@th...>:

> Hi
>
> I look after the OS X macports Port of gramps and I am faced with a
> dilemma.
>
> I have a gramps-3 portfile ready to go but I am worried about users of
> gramps-2 upgrading automatically and finding that they can not open
> their databases.
>
> I have become rather confused by the various reports of people having
> problems with the upgrade. The advice appears to be to export your data
> as a XML _before_ you upgrade to gramps-3, but you don't know that you
> have a problem until _after_ you have upgraded. Most users will not read
> the web site before they run the upgrade command.
>
> One option might be to create a gramps-3 package that can be installed
> at the same time as the gramps-2 package. At least then the user can run
> up gramps-2 to do the export.
>
> So what has been the approach for other distributions?
>
> How difficult would it be to install gramps-3 along side gramps-2?
>
> Am I worried for no good reason? Are the problems that people have had
> with the upgrade isolated to just a few people that have moved their
> database directories?
>
> Is it safe to upgrade directly from 2.10 to 3.0.1?
>
> Advice would be gratefully received.
>
> Regards
>
> Richard
>
>
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