Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: My experience upgrading from OpenACS 4.6.3 to 5.2.3

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Posted by Mark Aufflick on
I recently upgraded my personal site ( http://mark.aufflick.com/ ) from OpenACS 4.something (circa 2002) to 5.4, postgres changing from 7.2 to 8.2.5.

I agree with Don that the later you go the easier it gets. I had to tweak a few sql upgrade files (some I checked in, some were local tweaks).

But after a few hours effort, thanks to some forum threads (same ones posted above). It worked perfectly.

I was (and still am to a lesser extent) using some old non-standard lars-* packages and some personal hacks which were easy to re-implement on the latest oacs.

I think that's pretty amazing - upgrading 6 years of core changes in a few hours - and shows the discpline in the oacs core team given to upgradability.

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Posted by Mark Aufflick on
s/Don/Dave/