Migrating from Cumulus 1 to MX: Difference between revisions

Migrating from Cumulus 1 to MX (view source)

Revision as of 08:13, 23 March 2021

928 bytes removed , 08:13, 23 March 2021

m

cut

Sfws

5,838

edits

@@ Line 84: / Line 84: @@
 **In all versions of MX, the software expects periods/full stops in .ini files regardless of the locale in use, please see the [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12908  Cumulus MX Announcements and Download - PLEASE READ FIRST] for details, but generally if you want to transfer these files from Cumulus 1 to MX, it is best if '''you edit them so all decimal numbers have a "." between the integer and decimal parts'''.
 * In individual articles, any differences in the precise content or format within individual files will be highlighted.
-==Moving Files from MX to Cumulus 1==
-When Steve Loft designed his original Cumulus (1), he had no experience to draw upon as to the best way to treat items like dates. When he designed Cumulus MX, he was able to learn from his experiences with both Cumulus 1 and Cumulus 2, and he decided to use dates to an ISO specification (ISO 8601 Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times), and therefore log files are not [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15167 backwards compatible].
-That said, there are some features in Cumulus 1 that are [[Moving_from_Cumulus_1_to_MX#Cumulus_1_features_not_ever_going_to_be_included_in_MX|missing in MX]], and there are Cumulus users who have migrated back either on a temporary basis (to use a missing feature before they return to MX) or in a very few cases decided to stay with Cumulus 1 (because they prefer it).
 == Key differences and similarities between Cumulus 1 and MX ==