[Tickets #9745] Re: Upgrading overwrites backends.php

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/9745
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  Ticket             | 9745
  Updated By         | bergonz at labs.it
  Summary            | Upgrading overwrites backends.php
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | 5.0-RC2
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Not A Bug
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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bergonz at labs.it (2011-03-31 07:41) wrote:

Being the Joe Average sysadmin whose dumbness and haste you're trying  
to address, I still believe that having backends.php. renamed to  
backends.php.dist is a viable solution.

I understand that in this way it would not work "out of the box" with  
imap server on localhost, but:

  - I have no installation with imap server on localhost (this  
probably means I'm not really Joe Average)

  - [Doesn't work -> do something -> works] is an annoying fact of  
life Joe average can understand and is somewhat used to. In this  
specific case, having to tell the mailserver location to a webmail  
system can be seen as unavoidable.

  - [Works -> months pass -> upgrade -> doesn't work/lose config] is  
much more annoying and fosters the "Don't upgrade" school of thought,  
with obvious security implications.

My derailing in the last scenario was of course a mistake, but I think  
my mistake was not uncommon.