Moveable Type 3.1.4 -- How?
December 28, 2004 | Business & Commerce | Products & Opportunites
Would it be too much trouble for Six Apart to include a "readme" file describing how to upgrade their software? Apparently so. Here's what I see when I download the new release:
What am I supposed to do with this? Ironically, I open up the "docs" folder, and there isn't even an "index" page? Where do I start with that guys?
I realize that MT is a power-user product, and indeed yesterday I spent a few hours hacking Unix so I can handle it, but really – do I have to wade through the full manual to perform what is supposed to be a simple upgrade? The manual, by the way, has outdated version numbers in it, making me wonder if the instructions are accurate for this release. And anyway, do I really need all the files? Can't you just give me the changed files and I can install those?
If it's such an important upgrade, and you encourage all users to upgrade, how about making it easy for us? Even complex free-software projects maintained by volunteers have readme files. This is an old idea, but still, after three years, not standard practice for non-free commercial software from Six Apart.
Comments
Ditto!
Three hours spent upgrading from 3.121 to 3.14. and my blog still says I'm running ver 3.121.
I downloaded as instructed, couldn't find any readme file, FTP'd all kinds of files in Ascii and Binary to different directories on my server, had no idea what to do next, went to the forums and found some upgrade instructions but not specifically for this upgrade. Only had an upgrade script for ver 3.1 nothing for 3.14. Very unprofessional.
Posted by: Ron Foreman at December 29, 2004 02:36 PM
