[development] Incremental upgrades

[Steven Peck]

I have been busy so have not really followed this thread.... But in
the past, the biggest reason for consistently recommending people
update per version release was that it was the most widely tested
method of updating your site.

While we get the occasional person saying 'it worked fine' to jump
from 4.6 to 5.2 etc, The vast majority of active Drupal users update
point releases to a large degree.

Therefore while it is certainly 'possible' to jump more that that (And
I do generally without ill effect) the lack of lots of
testing/feedback make the current recommendations appropriate and
responsible.

Steven

On 8/3/07, Gabor Hojtsy <gabor at hojtsy.hu> wrote:
> Derek Wright wrote:
> > So, hypothetically, the updates from 4.6.x to 4.7.x might have used some
> > function in 4.7.x core that no longer exists or works the same way in
> > 6.x.  If that was true, you couldn't just upgrade directly from 4.6.x to
> > 6.x, since when you hit the update function that only worked in 4.7.x
> > core, it would fail and then the rest of the upgrade path could be
> > busted.  Therefore, first upgrading from 4.6.x to 4.7.x, then from 4.7.x
> > to 5.x, and finally from 5.x to 6.x, is the safest, since you're always
> > running update functions against the version of core they were written
> > for and tested with.
>
> There was exactly a node types API problem with updates from Drupal 4.6
> to 5.0 going directly: http://drupal.hu/english/node/8
>
> Gabor
>