Upgrading to 4.9 CVS vs. binary?

[Matthew Seaman]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:30:39AM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:

> While we're at it: Will it be possible to upgrade from 4.9 to 5.x via CSV?

It's possible right now, but be warned that upgrading over a major
version bump is a significantly harder proposition than upgrading
within, say, 4.x.  For many users it's going to be a whole lot less
grief just to do a reinstall of 5.x on top of their 4.x system.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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