> Some apps may be hosted outside (hg, bzr, git). It would nice to have > a mechanism for automatic updates and build of the apps.
update is remove + download + install (unless you want to keep user data which would make things more complicated) automatic updates also seem to require something else, not existing yet. The possibility of defining a method by each app which is automatically executed when web2py is invoked or periodically. Another way, would be to parse for all apps and retrieve the name, url and version parameters from each yaml conf file and search for new versions.