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Posted January 12, 200817 yr Is there any information on changes made between the two versions? I have alot of mods and skins installed so want to update manually. Any help please? Thanks in advance :)
January 12, 200817 yr For skins the diff report is in the announcement saying 2.3.4 has been released. There are no manual instructions, but you could use a difference tool (I use one called FreeDiff) to go through and find all the edits, or, you could look at the changed file lists and reapply edits that affect those files.
January 12, 200817 yr (I use one called FreeDiff) or WinMerge (Free - Windows only | WinMerge @ FileForum).
January 14, 200817 yr By the way, note to staff, are the changed PHP file reports compliant with SVN or CVS, I mean would they work using the updater?
January 14, 200817 yr We use SVN to generate the change reports, though I think Matt goes in and edits some of the non-essential stuff.
January 20, 200817 yr considering how much money you charge, it'd be nice to have a list of file changes.
January 21, 200817 yr Changed Files Since IP.Board 2.3.3:converge_local apis server_functions.php [*]init.php [*]ips_kernelclass_cache_eaccelerator.php class_db.php class_db_mssql.php class_db_oracle.php class_image.php class_ipsclass_core.php class_template_engine.php class_upload.php db_lib mssql_sqlsrv.php [*]jscriptsipb_global.js ips_text_editor.js ips_text_editor_func.js [*]resourceshelp_sections.xml help_settings.xml ipb_templates.xml settings.xml version_history.php [*]sourcesacp_loaders acp_pages_help.phpdashboard.php member.php member_tools.php multi_moderate.php rebuild.php skin_css.php skin_diff.php support.phpforums.php login.php misc legends.php [*]api [*]action_admin [*]action_public [*]moderate.php [*]online.php [*]profile.php [*]register.php [*]search.php [*]topics.php [*]usercp.php [*]xmlout.php api_skins.php api_topics_and_posts.php [*]classesattach plugin_msg.php plugin_post.phpclass_bbcode.php class_bbcode_core.phpclass_gw_nochex.phpclass_post.php class_post_edit.php class_post_new.php class_post_reply.php [*]components_acp [*]bbcode [*]class_custom_fields.php [*]class_display.php [*]class_forums.php [*]paymentgateways [*]post downloads.php gallery.php [*]handlershan_parse_bbcode.php [*]ipsclass.php [*]libfunc_digest.php func_msg.php search_mssql_ftext.php search_mysql_ftext.php [*]loginauthipconverge auth.php [*]sql [*]login_core.php mysql_extra_queries.php [*]tasksexpiresubs.phphttp://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?...t&p=1693330 If you mean they should provide manual edits... I'm yet to see a program that does - and I think anyone who wants to go and edit all those files as opposed to reinstalling their mods (which will almost defintatly be less edits) has *way* too much time on their hands.
January 21, 200817 yr It's really not that bad. Using a file comparison program like WinMerge allows me to spent at most 15 seconds per changed file (usually less) using keyboard shortcuts. There really aren't too many huge changes between point releases, and they're all picked up by the comparison anyway.
January 22, 200817 yr I just let the IPB people upgrade my board for 2.3.3 to 2.3.4... it took about 20 minutes I believe.
January 22, 200817 yr Professor P, CVS and I believe SVN actually provide file changes between the two versions, and I would be suprised if SVN didnt, a couple of releases ago, there were text documents that a program (guessing SVN) wrote, told you what needed to be added or removed.
January 22, 200817 yr Professor P, CVS and I believe SVN actually provide file changes between the two versions, and I would be suprised if SVN didnt, a couple of releases ago, there were text documents that a program (guessing SVN) wrote, told you what needed to be added or removed. Yes, those were generated from SVN (though Matt manually edited them to remove some things, like changes to the XML files).
January 22, 200817 yr Yes, those were generated from SVN (though Matt manually edited them to remove some things, like changes to the XML files). How come you guys haven't had them for the past few point releases? That would make it easier for people whose forums have 473977893 mods (read: a lot); and also people who know what they are doing. :)
January 22, 200817 yr Professor P, CVS and I believe SVN actually provide file changes between the two versions, and I would be suprised if SVN didnt, a couple of releases ago, there were text documents that a program (guessing SVN) wrote, told you what needed to be added or removed. I meant, I'm yet to see a web program (like IPB) that releases manual file-edit instructions for upgrades
January 22, 200817 yr How come you guys haven't had them for the past few point releases? That would make it easier for people whose forums have 473977893 mods (read: a lot); and also people who know what they are doing. :) 1) It takes a lot of time for Matt to pull it and go through it manually (and then when someone tries to run it as a patch and it fails, Matt has to go back and look at which manual edit caused the failure) 2) Maybe 10 of our customers find any use out of it (out of the thousands of customers we have) 3) Someone who doesn't know what they are doing will invariably try the patch file and mess something up, then submit a ticket asking why or blaming us for it Realistically, unless there's only a couple of files changed, it's just not worth it. When a tenth of the files in IPB have been updated, it's easier to just upload the files and reinstall your modifications. Plus, for those that don't remember this, we don't support file modifications. While we don't spend time discouraging it (and we try to promote members to do what they want), ultimately we can't spend extreme excess amounts of time trying to accomodate modifications. This is one of those areas.
February 8, 200817 yr Just chiming in that I really appreciated the diff file included with the 2.3.0 -> 2.3.1 upgrade, it made my job of manually upgrading much easier. It's a pity that you don't do them any more.
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