Ed Leafe wrote: > On Dec 30, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Carl Karsten wrote: > >> Why not update the install files each time you promote things to >> the Web Update? > > Because that would then be a new release, wouldn't it?
yes. so what? "release often" is considered a good thing. > The whole point of Web Update is to not make people wait until the > next release to get improvements without having to install and work > with Subversion. Web Updates are quick and easy to do; releases are a > more time-consuming process. That's the same problem Feltmans have. "it takes us a full day to bundle up a new version" (to be fair, that was years ago, and I think they did a web updater too.) > The problem is that fixes to the Web > Update process itself, such as the more graceful way of handling > permission problems, require that you be able to run Web Update to > get them. So if you installed Dabo using an administrator account and > then try to run Web Update with non-admin privs, you will get the > traceback until you run Web Update once with admin privs. Once you do > that, any future attempts to run as a nono-admin will get you a clean > message instead of a traceback. Updating is not a new problem. I'm sure you have heard of it, but just incase you missed it: "little overhead for build/release/install mechanics." http://docs.python.org/dist/dist.html I think you are re-inventing the wheel. "run an app as root" is not something everyone is going to accept. Run the IDE as root is just as bad. This reeks of the "default user gets Admin privs" that hunts Windows. my crystal ball shows you spending a bunch of time trying to replicate what distutils does, and at some point tearing it out and using distutils. so hurry up :) Seriously, updating modules shouldn't be this complicated. Carl K _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/dabo-users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
