gf-tech.com

Just upgraded gf-tech to Drupal 4.7-RC2 to play with it a bit.

The upgrade from 4.6.6 wasn't as smooth as I would like. There were a few DB upgrade issues. One was easy to ignore (Drupal trying to duplicate an alias I had already set up), one was easy to fix (dropping a table column), but the third I can't figure out what it should result in.

ALTER TABLE book ADD KEY nid (nid)

My book table has a primary key on a column named vid. Am I supposed to drop that key and add this one? I had previously turned off the book module. Re-enabling it I can still view the contained content with no errors. I will read up on this later. If I can't figure it out I can always do a throw away install to see what the table should look like in the end, and make mine match.

What do I think of the new install. So far everything feels familiar. The upgrade had some sweet ajaxy goodness when performing the DB upgrades. Nice to see a progress meter when things are working.

Now I am seeing more DHTML options for composing posts. Not bad. I'll have to see if there are settings to keep these expanded all the time.

My theme broke and that sucks. For me that is the biggest pain in the ass for upgrading. Re-working themes can take a lot of time I can't devote right now.

So far so good. More play time is needed though.