[wildfly-dev] Patching from previous versions ?

[Brian Stansberry]

On 6/5/14, 5:54 AM, Arun Gupta wrote:
> When 8.2 becomes available, will there be a patch available that will
> allow to upgrade from 8.1 only or 8.0 as well ?
>
> And similarly for future versions, will the patch only be available
> from the previous version or all previous major/minor versions ?
>

My 2 cents.

I don't see us supporting updating across major versions. Even if by 
some chance we could, I doubt we'd want to set that precedent.

As for updating from 8.0 to 8.2 in one update file, that's technically 
possible, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort. A update for 8.0->8.2 
would essentially consist of the 8.0->8.1 update and then the 8.1->8.2 
update packaged in the same file. That would be a really big file.

> Arun
>


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Brian Stansberry
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