Cog Rusty wrote:
To understand these upgrade instructions I tried to trace their origin (also looking for points where utility becomes ritual). Two old announcements by Dries seem relevant, 4.5.0 and 4.5.2.
From 4.5.0 quote: "For the most trouble free transition, it is recommended that you first upgrade existing installations to Drupal 4.4 and only then to Drupal 4.5."
No problem here, these are major versions.
From 4.5.2 quote: "For the most trouble free transition from an existing installation, it is recommended that you first upgrade to Drupal 4.5.0 or Drupal 4.5.1"
This "or" makes things clearer: "Don't trust this new release *yet* with major version upgrades." I guess this is what has been carried over to the recent announcement. Are there still good reasons for this caution? Because I see many people in the forum for whom an additional upload and minor update is also a real risk.
This might have been the intention, but I don't think this stands anymore.
From 4.5.2 again quote: "If you are upgrading from Drupal 4.4.x or below, please consult the Drupal 4.5.0 release announcement [a link] for more information."
This seems to mean: "If you are upgrading from an older major version (4.4.x), then consult the first release announcement of this major version (4.5.0) because you will find more upgrade info there."
So, the "relevant announcements" in our case should be 5.0, 4.7.0, 4.6.0,... (provided that there are actually more upgrade information there)
Yes, it makes sense to look at the major version announcement first for information, but IMHO upgrading to that first and then to the latest point release is not practical, neither desired. Gabor