[wp-hackers] Why always absolute paths?

[Japh]

A fair point.  I guess in order for the migration to properly do this, the
export should replace any occurrence of the current domain with some sort of
"shortcode" style thing, and then an import replaces the "shortcode" with
the new domain (otherwise, an import won't know the difference between what
was an internal or external link on the previous domain).

- Japh


On 21 April 2010 14:48, Vinicius Massuchetto <viniciusandre at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Japh <japhie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The issue of broken absolute URLs left over after a migration is actually
> > fairly easily fixed with a MySQL find/replace query.  Not really an
> issue.
>
> Serialized data in plugins and Wordpress configuration won't be fixed
> by a search/replace. And doing that sounds logic for who knows what
> SQL is. Users will be stuck on this.
>
> While working with the XML migration, users won't think about opening
> the file to replace the links too. We expect a migration to be truly a
> complete migration.
>
> [...]
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