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Santos 
Newbie
Joined: 30 January 2004
Location: Venezuela
Status: Offline
Points: 8
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 Posted: 05 February 2004 at 3:47am |
 ljamal wrote:
Yes, but in case a lot of the fixes regard the
application variables, date functions, uploads and admin tools which I
have altered to fit my needs or do not use. From this upgrade, the only
change I needed was on the search page, it's hardly worth downloding
the entire forum for that one change.
You are forgetting that a lot of us heavily modify the basic forum
and it would be a great help to us not to have to download the entire
forum in order to find out that you updated pages to modify application
variables or the RTE both of which I don't use on my forum. |
I use Visual Comparer http://www.compare-file.com/download.htm to
compare each sensitive file between both original versions first (7.7
without my own changes and 7.7a). Then knowing and understanding the
changes, I put the changes secure in my own fixed version.
You can use others application to compare entire folders (7.7 vs 7.7a original version) to see the mayor changes in files.
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ljamal
Mod Builder Group
Joined: 16 April 2003
Status: Offline
Points: 888
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Posted: 05 February 2004 at 7:44am |
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But you still have to download the new download. You shouldn't have to download a new version to figure out if you want to upgrade. However, apparently no one else seems to mind, but is it really so difficult to make the version history file a separate download?
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BoLt
Senior Member
Joined: 20 November 2003
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 285
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Posted: 05 February 2004 at 7:51am |
Top Marks works well, Thankz again. 
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BoLt (Computer Engineer)
I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick.
www.welshlens.co.uk
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ctscott
Senior Member
Joined: 27 May 2003
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 246
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Posted: 05 February 2004 at 9:56am |
ljamal wrote:
But you still have to download the new download. You shouldn't have to download a new version to figure out if you want to upgrade. However, apparently no one else seems to mind, but is it really so difficult to make the version history file a separate download? |
it is a pain to go thru and weed out the changed modules.
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Skeever
Newbie
Joined: 25 February 2003
Location: Norway
Status: Offline
Points: 9
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Posted: 05 February 2004 at 1:05pm |
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Brilliant stuff Borg, i just upgraded from 7.6 to 7.7a without a hitch. All i had to was replace the asp files.
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thekiwi
Mod Builder Group
Joined: 23 November 2003
Location: New Zealand
Status: Offline
Points: 392
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Posted: 05 February 2004 at 3:16pm |
ljamal wrote:
But you still have to download the new download. You shouldn't have to download a new version to figure out if you want to upgrade. However, apparently no one else seems to mind, but is it really so difficult to make the version history file a separate download? |
I must admint I searched all over WWF site looking for a change history file or a release description. So whilst it is common practice for software releases and yes ... you currently do have to download and extract to see what has changed ... its not a large file 
My personal preference would be to have the change file available for viewing .....
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WebWiz-Bruce
Admin Group
Web Wiz Developer
Joined: 03 September 2001
Location: Bournemouth
Status: Offline
Points: 9844
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Posted: 05 February 2004 at 3:46pm |
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Poeple shouldn't wonder if they shopuld upgrade, it's a cse of you
should always be running the latest version if you don't want your
forum to be secure as new releases usually follow after security fixes.
If you want your forum to be secure from hackers you should always upgrade to the latest version!!
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ljamal
Mod Builder Group
Joined: 16 April 2003
Status: Offline
Points: 888
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Posted: 05 February 2004 at 3:53pm |
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Not everyone is going to upgrade everytime.
If there are security updates then they should be noted. With people modding the forum to work with their web sites, it's unreasonable to think that they will upgrade everything.
Most people will not upgrade unless something happens to their website or there ia a feature that they want.
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