<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott Merrill</b> <<a href="mailto:skippy@skippy.net">skippy@skippy.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Vogel, Andrew (vogelap) wrote:<br>> I've never seen an app that instructs you to delete everything first. I<br>> know that WordPress is special; I don't understand what's special about<br>> it that requires me to delete instead of overwrite.
<br><br>WordPress is not special.<br><br>> What is the estimated percentage of installations that encounter the<br>> "overwrite issue"?<br><br>I've no idea.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Here's an idea: Strike the "delete" instructions from the official
</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">upgrade guide. Then everyone who's complaining about the verbosity of</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the instructions should commit to spend a week on the support forums
</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">helping people when the next upgrade comes out.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">If you're objecting to the instructions, then please commit to helping
</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">deal with the consequences of their removal. Thanks</span>.</blockquote><div><br><br>Exactly.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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