you can already trash an application On Mar 3, 1:34 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <resultsinsoftw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 3, 11:48 am, Dragonfyre13 <dragonfyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If it's untarred over the top of the old one, any files that are not > > in the new tar file will be left there. Since an app is supposed to > > kind of be self contained, shouldn't it remove the old app, and then > > untar to the directory? > > A trivially simple way to handle this would be to have the concept of > an application "trash can", where > a current app would be moved to "trash", and a new one installed. > > Another way would be to literally have app-area per-application > repositories (hg), and literall just "pull" the new app (including any > file deletions) - but this would mean the tar / w2p file format > giving way to /letting mercurial manage updates in these circumstances > (which would probably not be bad). > > - Yarko > > > > > On Feb 16, 11:08 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 16, 2010, at 8:32 AM, DenesL wrote: > > > > > Thanks (it is copy/paste of the original). > > > > Do you know of any docs on usage?. > > > > On the admin app's app-installation page, there's a checkbox to enable > > > overwriting of an uploaded app. If not checked, the behavior is the same > > > as before: an attempt to install an app with the same name as an > > > installed app fails. In the overwrite case, the new app simply gets > > > untarred over the old app. > > > > > On Feb 16, 11:21 am, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > >> On Feb 16, 2010, at 7:16 AM, DenesL wrote: > > > > >>> New features not documented in Book (2nd edition) > > > > >>> 1.75.2 > > > >>> - no more cron with -S option > > > >>> - ability to override/upgrade and app > > > > >> overwrite
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