[horde] How to upgrade - was: Horde 5.0.0alpha1

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Brent <impuser at bitrealm.com>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>> Zitat von Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>:
>>
>>> Am 06.07.12 00:37, schrieb Jan Schneider:
>>>> The Horde Team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the Horde
>>>> Application Framework version 5.0.0.
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> one more thing... is there also a plan for releasing an webmail edition?
>>
>> Of course, but only after the apps have stabilized.
>>
>>> Or what would be the best practice solution for testing H5? (All Docs
>>> currently describe updating / installing up to H4.x)
>>
>> The same rules apply.
>>
>>> I do have a H4 webmail installation up and running on a test system
>>> which could be blown up, so I can nearly do anything I like to.
>>>
>>> But an pear upgrade -a -B horde/webmail would be very nice ;)
>>
>> pear -d preferred_state=alpha upgrade -a -B -c horde
>> -- 
>
> Anyway to have a parallel installation?  I'd run it to a different  
> mysql database since I assume there are many schema changes and I  
> don't want to break the current version.  I'd like to kick the tires  
> on the new release but I don't have a spare system handy.

You could do this if you are very experienced with Horde and you know  
what you are doing. We develop several versions on the same system at  
the same time. But without a spare system or trying that on a cloned  
VM, I wouldn't recommend it for less experienced users.
-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/