Friday, August 15, 2008

MT 4.2

I just bussed in all of the upgrade files for Movable Type 4.2, so I had to hustle together an entry to see whether it lives up to the hoopla, especially the faster page-creation times, which had become downright arthritic with the latest releases (e.g., 4.x).

So far, I can offer the following (exclamation-style, so as to keep with the mood of 4.2's release):

• the upgrade was a cinch. That's good!
• my search form is broken. That's bad!
• the basic templates held up. That's good!
• I will have to install a dummy blog and ransack its templates to troubleshoot the search error, and I have no time for that. That's bad!
• a full site rebuild took less then seven minutes. Good!
• posting this entry took something like four seconds. Faster than before!

I still haven't read any of the release materials closely enough to figure out the difference between MT 4.2 and MT Pro. For now, my justification is not only a case of the late-summer lazies, but also a principled objection to the "Pro" designation, which, for my purposes, would be better if it were "Am" or, on the best of days, "Pro-Am."

Posted by Derek Mueller at August 15, 2008 3:15 PM to On Weblogs