I've just finished upgrading mytlc.com to 4.6.3 and I wanted to keep going. So I then upgraded postgres from 7.2 to 7.3. (major hint for those who dare undertake the same thing at a future date: If you're having strange trouble with LD_LIBRARY_PATH as root but not as nsadmin chmod 755 /usr/local/pgsql instead of 750 like the docs say) Anyway, I finally got things working with PG 7.3. I have it in a local cvs repository.

Aolserver 3.1+ad13 is serving it up, however, this Openacs Prerequisite Software Graph doesn't show that version at all. It does show that 3.3+ad13 would only take me to 5.1.x, so I guess that's the best I could hope for with aolserver3.1+ad13.

My question, should I upgrade to AOL4 now, get it to work on 4.6.3, and then attempt the upgrade to 5.2. Or should I upgrade to openacs 5.1.5 on aol3.1+ad13, then get AOL4 to work at that point, before going to openacs 5.2? Which path would be less likely to give me grey hair?

Or I guess I could just upgrade to 5.2 and aol4 at the same time, right, but I'm worried that I won't know what or which doesn't work when something goes wrong.

Any thoughts or suggestions? One of my goals is to get as close to the front of this so I can be more active in helping test or QA new developments. I'm definitely more comfortable with CVS at this point...

Definitely best to upgrade one subsystem at a time, so as to limit the problem scope that you need to work through.

I followed the upgrade instructions[1] in the docs after upgrading to aolserver4.0.10 first.

1. http://openacs.org/doc/openacs-5-2/upgrade-4.6.3-to-5.html

best wishes to an uneventful upgrade! =)