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Old 12-11-2009, 09:28 AM
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Default Re: X-Cart 4.4 has been added to the development plan

From a mod developer's perspective, I can appreciate the difficulty of upgrading mods for every new version that comes along.

I, for one, enjoy the accelerated development schedule of new features. It used to be much slower.

For everyone else, the upgrade path is painful no matter what version you are upgrading from/to. You can now get an upgrade script for 4.1.12-4.3 allowing you to skip 4.2 but it is still a painful process. Up until recently, you could not even apply a minor version upgrade if any *official* security patches were applied and the changed files were part of the upgrade. These patches had to be rolled back for the upgrade to work. I'm glad that has been improved. But you still have a lot of work to do to apply a minor upgrade if *any* of the upgraded files have been modified. This is the process that needs to be improved regardless of version numbers.
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