PDA

View Full Version : Will vB 2.0 be a pain to upgrade to?

Jake Bunce
Fri 26th Jan '01, 3:12am
Like, will I have to redo any of the customizations (no hacks, just extensive cfgs) I've done to my current 1.15 vB when I upgrade to 2.0?
leadZERO
Fri 26th Jan '01, 7:37am
The dev team is working on the upgrade script right now.

But something tells me it won't be a pain to upgrade. I mean seriously. Do you think a team that is this public would WANT to listen to everyone gripe here in the forum because they didn't take the time to make it easy? Put a little more faith in them.

Upgrading will be fine.
Jamie
Fri 26th Jan '01, 9:04am
i think with all the new features that the templates will need be reset, that is the only thing that will be a slight pain.
YellowKard
Fri 26th Jan '01, 9:20am
Yes only a slight pain since they are making it backup your existing templates, so you'll have to do some copy and pasteing.
chrispadfield
Fri 26th Jan '01, 10:02am
and because each seperate template is small it will be a matter of copying over your header and footer and the small changes made in each one.

Freedie did it and from the looks of when he started and finished it took him less than a day to do.
Freddie Bingham
Fri 26th Jan '01, 11:58am
Originally posted by chrispadfield
and because each seperate template is small it will be a matter of copying over your header and footer and the small changes made in each one.

Freedie did it and from the looks of when he started and finished it took him less than a day to do.

Most of my work is done in the header/footer so I just had to move those over and everything just fell in to place for me.
John Harrison
Fri 26th Jan '01, 12:56pm
I dont see v2.0 being one pain at all as you can choose to lose your templates or not.
Wayne Luke
Fri 26th Jan '01, 1:47pm
Originally posted by vBoard.co.uk
I dont see v2.0 being one pain at all as you can choose to lose your templates or not.

No your current templates will be backed up and the style will be set to the default which is these forums here.

There will also be other style sets available. Mainly different color variations of this forum.

You will have to rebuild all your templates. However since they are backed up you can use that to help.
werehere
Fri 26th Jan '01, 2:13pm
Originally posted by YellowKard
Yes only a slight pain since they are making it backup your existing templates, so you'll have to do some copy and pasteing.

I really think this will be the key to making it easy! :)
Shaman
Fri 26th Jan '01, 3:11pm
Whatever, they need to do it soon.

I know of four other web forums with a featureset almost identical to vBulletin, all free... and one of them promises no more than two SQL calls per page (using PostgreSQL and stored procedures).

vBulletin 2.0 needs to assert its presence soon so that the hacking, etc. etc. that makes these communities come alive can start.
chrispadfield
Fri 26th Jan '01, 5:36pm
Originally posted by Shaman
Whatever, they need to do it soon.

I know of four other web forums with a featureset almost identical to vBulletin, all free...

i would be interested to here of them, but if phpbb is one don't bother :)
John Harrison
Fri 26th Jan '01, 6:37pm
Far as I can tell MYSQL is on more hosts then PostgreSQL.

Is that true?
Chris Schreiber
Fri 26th Jan '01, 7:14pm
Originally posted by vBoard.co.uk
Far as I can tell MYSQL is on more hosts then PostgreSQL.

Is that true?

Yes, I would say of those hosts that offer databases, the ratio is at least 5-to-1 in offering MySQL over PostgreSQL. Now, both databases have advantages and disadvantages (which is a whole new thread :) )
Fred
Sat 27th Jan '01, 3:40am
I'm not really fussy about the templates. As soon as it's installed, I'll take the next 5 hrs to customize my templates. Easy as that.
Sharg
Sat 27th Jan '01, 7:27am
Whatever, they need to do it soon.

I know of four other web forums with a featureset almost identical to vBulletin, all free... and one of them promises no more than two SQL calls per page (using PostgreSQL and stored procedures).

vBulletin 2.0 needs to assert its presence soon so that the hacking, etc. etc. that makes these communities come alive can start.


Or you said to much, or you didn't said enough now.
foens
Sun 28th Jan '01, 11:08am
I am looking very much forward to the upgrade - but I must admit that I am also a bit "troupled" by the chance tha I have to translate all the software again.

In ver 1.1.3 I have translatet all templates into danish - and it is working fine - I hope that I can reuse a lot of that work.

Hope ver 2 will be here soon
PeF
Sun 28th Jan '01, 11:28am
Originally posted by foens
In ver 1.1.3 I have translatet all templates into danish - and it is working fine - I hope that I can reuse a lot of that work.


http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=7256

:D