On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:18 AM, mdipierro wrote: > It could be even simpler like keep a copy of the VERSION file into > each of the basic apps.
What would be in the file? It'd have to be more than the version number and timestamp. > > 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.
