Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> writes:
> Mainly, because of the situation where I have may versions that can
> all be upgraded from the same script. I'ld much rather distribution
> just 3 scripts (install + 2 upgrades), and a control file with
> something like this (pretend I'm on version 2.6)
> upgragde-1.0 = $EXT-upgrade-1.sql
[...]
> upgrade-2.5 = $EXT-upgrade-2.sql
Thanks for the example.
> Again, I'ld love for the "version" to support some sort of prefix or
> wildcard matching, so I could do:
> upgrade-1.* = $EXT-upgrade-1.sql
> upgrade-2.* = $EXT-upgrade-2.sql
Problem is: what to do if a single upgrade matches more than one line?
The only safe answer is to error out and refuse to upgrade but that
ain't nice to the user. How much is that a problem here?
Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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