[development] multisite shared table upgrade enhancements (was what would be more useful)

[Khalid B]

On 2/24/06, Moshe Weitzman <weitzman at tejasa.com> wrote:
> > * Are the core developers interested in having multi-site support in the
> > update process?  (I mean, why work on something just to have it go
> > nowhere, right?)
>
> yes . multi-site is very much a supported feature. so is the update
> system. their combination needs to be supproted as well.

Agreed. If we say it is supported, then the upgrade should be seamless.

> > * What do you think is a better/more workable/more Drupal-like approach:
> >
> > a) put an option in the process that the user can select (in
> > update_selection_page(), I guess) that tells the system to update all
> > tables in the database, not just those for the present site.
> >
> > b) an option for the user to say whether to update the shared tables or
> > not.  This way, the user will update each site in each site's interface,
> > but the user will only select the shared table run one time.
> >
> > c) other ideas?
> >
>
> the only solution that is even somewhat workable in my small brain is to
> warn the user and then upgrade all the sites at once. i think thats the
> deal with multi-site. you need to do separate sites if you want them to
> be on different versions. if you can think of more flexible solutions,
> thats great.

We have to tell the user that this will happen and let them press
a button to proceed.

By the way, what does Bryght think? They are one of the few multisite
hosters our there ...

Boris?