From 986e8228bb03451bb7c470047075b0b191f32b58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: shish Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:13:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] readme updates git-svn-id: file:///home/shish/svn/shimmie2/trunk@734 7f39781d-f577-437e-ae19-be835c7a54ca --- README.txt | 48 +++++++++--------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index ac1ddfbe..db7d73d8 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ /_______ /|___| /__|__|_| /__|_| /__|\___ >_______ \ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ -Shimmie 2.1 Release Candidate -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -RSS, BBCode + Emoticons, Wiki, Theme engine 2 + Danbooru theme, UTF8 support, -Word filter, LOTS of database optimisations, Removal of ConfigSaveEvent and -many small fixes and improvements \o/ +Shimmie 2.2 +~~~~~~~~~~~ +Tag history, RSS for search results, unified image info editor, extensible +file format support (ZIP, SWF, SVG, MP3, ...), wget transloader, event log +filtering and sorting, as well as the usual various improvements~ Requirements @@ -19,12 +19,9 @@ MySQL 4.1+ PHP 5.0+ GD or ImageMagick -PHP 4 support has currently been dropped, because -a) It's a pain in the ass to support -b) Nobody has told me they want it - -If you want PHP 4 support, mail me, and I'll see if I can get it working for -version 2.2... +PHP 4 support has currently been dropped, because it's a pain in the ass to +support. If you are unfortunate enough to be stuck on a PHP4-only host, I'd +be glad to host your image board for you :3 Installation @@ -38,40 +35,13 @@ Installation not, you should be given instructions on how to fix any errors~ -Upgrade from 2.0.X +Upgrade from 2.1.X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Should be automatic, just unzip and copy across config.php, images and thumbs folders from the old version. This includes automatically messing with the database -- back it up first! -Upgrade from 0.8.4 -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -BIG NOTE: 0.8.4 is the only version the upgrader supports; please upgrade to -that before going any further! Feel free to try other versions, just don't -complain when it doesn't work :P - -Upgrade process: -1) Make backups of everything. The most important things are your database - data, and your images folder. config.php and the thumbs folder are also - very helpful. -2) Check that your backups actually contain the important data, they aren't - just empty files with the right names... -3) Create a new, blank database, separate from the old one -4) Unzip shimmie2 into a different folder than shimmie1 -5) Visit the URL of shimmie2 -6) Fill in the old database location, the new database location, and the full - path to the old installation folder (the folder where the old "images" and - "thumbs" can be found) -7) Click "upgrade" -8) Wait a couple of minutes while data is copied from the old install into the - new one. You may wish to spend these minutes in prayer :P -9) Log in with an existing admin account and set things up to taste - -The old installation can now be removed, but you may wish to keep it around -until you're sure everything in v2 is working properly~ - - Contact ~~~~~~~ http://forum.shishnet.org/viewforum.php?f=6 -- discussion forum