Re: Uneasy calm...
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu Oct 01 2020 10:31 am

 > I did my usual quarterly BBS shutdown, fresh backup, copying
 > sbbs_dev.zip and sbbs_run.zip to the BBS, unzipping the exec, web, and
 > xtrn directories, checked through the ctrl directory changes, copied
 > the contents over my live directories, and restarted everything.
 >
 > And it all works.

Awesome. One thing I've noticed and heard reported is that the default Loadable
Modules don't always auto-populate in persistent way, so you might want to
double-check SCFG->System->Loadable Modules and that they're how you would
expect.

 > Normally, I need to do quite a bit of tweaking - everything feels a
 > bit faster, too.

There were some performance improvements since v3.17, in particular around
message bases (index loading and such), but I can't think of any optimizations
that would improve the performance of "everything". On Windows? I guess that
could be the dynamically-loaded CRTLs. Dunno.

 > I'm looking forward to playing with tickfix, I didn't see the
 > git update notification until I read through the update log online...
 >
 > My next tempting of fate is going to be to compare what's in git
 > versus what's in my directories and delete any unused crap - my
 > install dates back to 2006 or so, and there's a ton of cruft in /exec,
 > remnants from ecwebv2, v3, and so on...

Yeah, some of that cruft is still in the git repo too. It's mostly harmless.

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