[xwiki-devs] Web-Update

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... Cheers, Squirrel