I have a client working on zope 2.3.3. What are the advantages to upgrading zope to the latest version? It's likely to be a big job, how can I justify this? What are the risks to upgrading? Thanks, Mark _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
Speed. Stability. Features. Security. I personally upgrade every couple of releases (2.5.1 ---> 2.6.1) but I wait for the .0.1 release. I have found that staying a few releases behind better for stability but if you stay too many behind, you will get caught in a huge upgrade path. BZ
I have a client working on zope 2.3.3. What are the advantages to upgrading zope to the latest version? It's likely to be a big job, how can I justify this? What are the risks to upgrading?
Thanks, Mark
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From: "Mark Gibsonz" <mngibso@excite.com>
I have a client working on zope 2.3.3. What are the advantages to upgrading zope to the latest version?
Less bugs, lot's of new neat features?
It's likely to be a big job, how can I justify this?
Just read through the doc/CHANGES.txt and see what's in there that could be good for your client. If you have many custom Python products, there will be some work in porting them. The biggest things are the move from Python 1.5.2 to 2.x which gives you some changes, and the Catalogs have changed quite a lot. I don't use ZClasses, so I don't know how complicated they are to upgrade. I've heard both that there is some work involved and that there is no work involved.
What are the risks to upgrading?
None, except that it may take longer than you expect. But it can go faster too.
Mark Gibsonz writes:
I have a client working on zope 2.3.3. What are the advantages to upgrading zope to the latest version? When your customer is happy and you do not need new features, there are almost no advantages.
Except, that you may have more time now than when he starts to become unhappy ....
It's likely to be a big job, how can I justify this? What are the risks to upgrading? Usually, only a few products need a bit of care. Most upgrades I did could be done within one hour.
Dieter
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