--- Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, but I want my (quasi-production) environment > to > > remain stable and I don't want to expose it to > > constant patches. This will be even more > important > > once 2.0 becomes official. Maybe this doesn't > really > > apply to MP, but I also wouldn't want to break any > > dependencies that other modules have (i.e. MP may > > require an update to httpd, which breaks something > > else). (Of course, I wouldn't have this concern > if I > > had another system for pure development.) > > A properly designed production system, has a > thorough test suite and a > staging machine(s), so any new upgrade goes through > it. You can't just go, > upgrade the software and hope that it'll work. Any > new version may > introduce new bugs, so you are never protected if > you don't thoroughly > test *your* system. > Agreed. I don't have the luxury of having the required hardware, so I could not consider this a true production environment. Hence why I called it quasi-production; perhaps production-wanna-be would have been a better term.
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