Re: [xwiki-devs] Web-Update

I'd love to, unfortunately I'm not a developer (I tried to learn JAVA for 3 months, I understand the concept, but I couldn't figure out what to do next, so I gave up, maybe I'm too stupid for that *g*). I have only a shallow knowledge about programming. I'm more a guy who knows what and how to use it, but not how to develope stuff. Not very helpful, I know...

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: > Hi Squirrel, > > On Jun 26, 2008, at 8:03 PM, Squirrel wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I know the installation/update is not that complicated and I >> discussed that >> on this list some time ago, too. Nevertheless I have an (incomplete) >> idea to >> this topic. Maybe you had this already, maybe it's not a good idea >> at all, >> however: >> >> Recently I had to modify the login.vm file on the server as I found >> no way >> to change this page within XWiki. By this time I realized that I >> have to >> write down my modification for the next update. So I thought maybe >> it would >> be possible to change the update process a bit. >> >> What about a web-updater? If you would create a web-updater you >> could show >> the troublesome files and show the differences (maybe by generating >> for each >> and every file a MD5 hash by the time you release a version) and let >> the >> user decide how to proceed (like in Linux when an update tries to >> change >> grub). In addition to that you could stream important release >> information >> into this 'update'-area (new version, security stuff, etc. and, if >> the user >> is willing to provide them, some usage-statistics). Maybe you could >> even >> differentiate between core and plugin updates... > > Yep, this is something we'd like to do. Actually we call it the > Application Manager. > Here are some short specs for it: > * Ability to install/uninstall apps > * Ability to manage app dependencies > * Ability to upgrade applications > * Ability to list and install available apps defined in a remote > repository > * Ability to have not only wiki pages but also jars + Interface > extensions + Skin extensions in application XARs > > So for the part about "ability to upgrade apps" yes I also envision > storing a hash and if different from the user version show some diff > and let the user decide. > > Now all we need is some help... Would you be able to help design/ > implement this? > > Thanks > -Vincent