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Originally Posted by KirbyDE

My board is so hacked that even with Tools like Beyond Compare, the last upgrade (3.0.0 RC2 -> 3.0.6) took some hours to get it working again without errors, although the new Version had been tested before by the whole team for some days.

Not to mention the Style stuff which took weeks.

Yeah, that's where mine is. I eventually invested in Slick Edit and keep a very tightly controlled set of conventions over marking up hacks within the code, the changes made, etc. Done well file changes are easy to migrate and not too time consuming.

Style changes take time though, that I'll admit, but that would be the case even with the plugin system. Especially because most of the time I cut 'n' paste the templates into Slick Edit so that I can use a powerful diff and merge tool to make the new version.

I dread to think how difficult it will be to upgrade when I finish the XHTML Strict style I've been hacking together for weeks (reduced tables, highly semantic).