Re: Today is "I hate Dolphin 6" day...

Is there a SIMPLE way to migrate an application to Dolphin 6?  Other
than getting errors and stack traces, and things that make me think I
wasted my money upgrading?

My experience is that there is always a risk of conflict with a new version, and there is always some house keeping to do in moving to a new version - that seems perfectly reasonable to me. IIRC, OA changed the ListModel update methods a while back in a patch and then later reversed the change because they felt it was improper to make a breaking change in a patch. Either way, it does not surprise me.

Generally, I make a backup of my outgoing version image, and then begin test loading packages in the new version. For problems such as you are having, I generally "damage" the current/old image a little by unpackaging and conflicting methods, resaving the packages, and then rebuilding. My Migrate goodie captures a lot of what I do, both in code and (to a lesser extent<g>) documentation. Feel free to use/adapt it in any way that helps you.

I like to get the new image unlocked and make a backup of it too. I further set up a batch file to reset to the newly unlocked image so I can go to the old image, tweak, save packages, copy to the new location, reset the new image, and try the evolving load script. Put another way, work yourself into a lather, rinse, repeat :)

I generally do not immediately activate IDE extensions; I like to get the new image to a stable point and get a backup of it before starting to do things that might cause a meltdown, and extensions certainly have that potential, unless they are very forgiving about errors (such as my debugging sounds extension which traps/ignores all errors).

Good luck!

Bill

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