So, I'm about to upgrade to the latest version of MovableType. Normally I upgrade quickly, but this latest one is a rather large change and it's extensive upgrade instructions have made be nervous. Older upgrades were of the "upload all of this, but not this, then run this upgrade script" variety -- and they all worked fine without goofing anything up. This time around, it's "migrate these settings, make sure you remove these plugins, do this and that, then start uploading files."

Makes me nervous.

It also makes me feel a little overwhelmed. I've got a fairly modified set of templates and MT 3.2 has a whole new way of handling them, or a bunch of new features, or something... it's not entirely clear. I like having the latest stuff running, but at what cost?

I was just about to sit down and fix up some of the templates when I decided that it would be better to do that _after_ upgrading to 3.2 in case I had to start over. Coming to those sort of decisions isn't always a good thing.

Well, we'll see how it goes... this is the last post on a pre-3.2 install. (Unless it totally fails and I have to restore from my backup, of course.)

Posted by Shane on September 25, 2005 1:49 PM | Permalink