On Dec 3, 2009, at 9:28 AM, mdipierro wrote: > why? We only need to check if the app version is less then the current > web2py version and eventually display a link that gives the admin the > option to install the latest version of the app. > > Are you thinking of something different?
Yes, I'm thinking of detecting whether the apps have been modified by the user. A reasonable default policy would be to automatically upgrade (on an app by app basis) apps that have not been modified since installation or the last upgrade. > > On Dec 3, 11:23 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: >> 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.
