[cap-talk] Handling upgrade with the Waterken Server (was: A paper on web-keys)

[Bill Frantz]

tyler.close at gmail.com (Tyler Close) on Sunday, January 20, 2008 wrote:

>I think a common theme across many design patterns for handling
>upgrade will be to dodge the problem as much as possible. For example,
>one approach is to design a set of classes whose sole purpose is to
>hold your long-lived state. These objects are kept as simple and
>generic as possible.

Traditionally these objects are files and directories.  Thus you
have described the approach used by Unix, MacOS, Windows etc.

Cheers - Bill

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