[ZendTo] ANNOUNCE: 5.17-1 production release

[patpro]

Jules,

> I've setup a FreeBSD 11.2 box and am working on getting the ZendTo Installer to do it all for you.
> It will use the .tgz of ZendTo, hopefully that will be okay.

That's very nice! Thanks.


> I'll have to make the "upgrade" script a bit more clever so that it notices when it's on FreeBSD as the old versions of the preferences.php and zendto.conf will be in different places. But it should still be able to do the bulk of the job for you.

If you want to package a software that can be un-archived on top of an older version of itself, you might want to name config files with a suffix, say "preferences.php.sample" or "zendto.conf.dist". Then when you unpack the new version on top of the old one, existing config files are not erased. Users (or upgrade script) can then synch old config with new parameters from .sample/.dist files.

cheers,
patpro