[Zope] Upgrading best practices

[Brian Sullivan]

On 3/8/06, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/8/06, Brian Sullivan <briansullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there somewhere a general guide to upgrading existing Zope systems
> > to newer versions? I realize that there are special cases but I am
> > looking for a general best practices guide.
>
> 1. Install the new version in a new directory together with all
> products you use.
> 2. Copy the old ZODB to the new instance.
> 3. Do whatever needed for your products to upgrade.
>

That is essentially what I have done -- I just hadn't seen any
strategy written down and thought maybe there might be more to it.