[TYPO3-dev] Mysql 4.0

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

ries van Twisk wrote:
> can the install tool not simply upgrade an existing site like how all 
> other tools are doing it?

How do you expect to upgrade latin1 database with serialized PHP arrays into full utf-8 database? :) There is no solution for it so far. It requires going over each table, looking into data and converting it manually. And what if it concerns several thousand records?

> Seems like TYPO3 keeps itself locking itself into solutions it cannot 
> get out. Profiding
> an upgrade path is the way to get out of that again and leave old 
> solutions behind in favor of newer/beter.

No, this is not the case. The proposal is to keep this feature but mark it is deprecated and "must not be used".

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