Re: [Phpwiki-talk] bug in zip loading?

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 17:25:56 -0500 (EST)
"Steve Wainstead" <sw...@pa...> wrote:

> *sound of face slapping forehead*

Perhaps we should alter the Virgin Wiki Detection System (VWDS).
Maybe only load initial page source if the page database is
truly empty (i.e. zero pages)?  Or is a reason we're doing it
the current way (looking for FrontPage/HomePage.)

Also someone will need to go through and update most of the pages
which are in phpwiki-1.3.1/pgsrc/*, since you need up-to-date
versions of many of these for things to work okay.

(E.g. I just fixed RecentChanges...)

I think perhaps a better upgrade path is:
 0. Make zip-dump of old wiki.
 1. Start new wiki with virgin/wiped database, so that it
    loads the default (distributed) pgsrc.
 2. Manually (via PhpWikiAdministration) load the zip
    you made of the old wiki.  This overwrites the distributed
    pgsrc, so, e.g. PhpWikiAdministration will be broken after
    this step.
 3. Go back and manually edit the broken magic pages.  Now this
    job is easier since the working/distributed versions are
    archived...

Any ideas on things we can do to make this easier?

(If we had subwikis, we could have a subwiki which contains
most of the distributed pgsrc, and just replace that with the new
versions on every upgrade.)