Re: [Gusdev-gusdev] schema features v. patches

[Jonathan C. <cra...@sn...>]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Steve Fischer wrote:
> so, is there any operational difference between a patch and a release?
>  or is the only thing different which digit of the release number is
> affected?

In terms of the CVS structure and migration scripts, no, I don't think
there is any difference.  However, for users who aren't using CVS and who
are downloading tar'ed releases, a patch will typically consist of a
smaller set of files that you can install "on top of" or alongside an
existing full release.  We'll have to think about exactly how to implement
this, but here's one possibility; a tar file that contains

 1. Another tar file, which contains all the files under $PROJECT_HOME
    that have changed (or just the diffs, if we want to get fancy.)
 2. The schema migration scripts, which will make the database reflect the
    new files installed from 1.

After installing both of these parts we'd instruct people to re-install to
$GUS_HOME.

Jonathan