[ php-blog-Feature Requests-1669670 ] "mouse click" upgrade

Feature Requests item #1669670, was opened at 2007-02-27 04:25
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Status: Open
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Submitted By: RecentCoin (midirr)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: "mouse click" upgrade

Initial Comment:
If you want an example, look at Simple Machines Forums.  When a patch comes out, the admin interface notifies me that a newer version is available.  When an update on one of my installed modules is available, my admin interface notifies me when I log in.  

I have an option in the admin interface that says "Packages". I go to that and I can see what I have installed.  If there's an update, I click on it and it's downloaded and installed by the application.  

They use an XML manifest system, but it's really nice and it makes it convienent for end users who aren't very familiar with applying security patches to keep an application up to date.  

It even tests the files included in the update to see if I have any custom changes and warns me before I do the installation.  

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>Comment By: Garvin Hicking (garvinhicking)
Date: 2007-02-27 09:14

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Have a look at our Spartacus plugin, it has exactly this plugin
repository.

Because of security implications we cannot update a full s9y installation
using that system because it would requite full write privileges to all s9y
files, imposing a huge danger to the installation.

Installing a s9y update already is quite easy, so instead of making that
download over the web, we focus on the plugins only.

Improving that routine though to at some point support it, would be nice,
if we could have developing support by someone :)

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