[wp-docs] Upgrade instructions too hard?

[Michael E. Hancock]

From: "Podz" <podz at tamba2.org.uk>
> Matt Mullenweg wrote:
>
> > didn’t involve de-activating plugins
> Authors need to tell people to wrap their fucntions properly. It has
> been posted before. It also means that the core fail more gracefuly - a
> theme problem right now causes a blank screen and a post to the forum
> for instance.
>
> > and deleting files.
> The 'official' instructions have never said to delete files, and have
> always said to overwrite. The deleting came about because of very high
> levels of overwriting problems. It's written to save posts.

Interestingly, just after the 2.0 release, Mr. Sharma wrote
http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Carthik/Five_Step_Upgrade that recommends
deactivating plugins but overwriting files.

Can we come to a consensus about this (i.e. deactivating plugins and
deleting files)?

~~~~MichaelH