It could be even simpler like keep a copy of the VERSION file into each of the basic apps.
On Dec 3, 11:12 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:06 AM, salingrosso wrote: > > > We can make it a link of the side-bar that is alway there to remind us > > that we have an option to upgrade apps if we have not done so. It > > would be non-intrusive. The actual popup to point us to the link would > > appear only once. > > > I think this is the best solution. > > If the standard apps had a supplementary signature file with, say, MD5 hashes > of all the sources, we could detect whether there had been modifications and > act accordingly. > > Note also that the current scheme (--upgrade) is all or nothing, but it's not > likely that a developer would be modifying all three of the standard apps. > > (Me, I use my upgrade script that automatically snapshots the old version > before overwriting it.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
