The way you describe the environment, it's impossible to bring deterministic automated updates. If you have users customizing views, css, etc., there is bound to be some manual intervention needed if your updates also include views, css, etc.
You could use git, mercurial or a similar tool, but users would need to be versed enough to merge their own changes, etc. I don't see this approach as really being viable unless it's a very specific target group, ie. developers, system administrators, etc. Well, not even then... People do crazy things, or at least things you don't expect. User creativity (and "creativity") never stops to amaze me... So, it would be better to request users to submit their changes first and then create personalized updates - hopefully, you'll be getting paid for such support :) I'd approach this problem as any other OS package - use separate config files that don't get updated, have app files that get overwritten on every update. Each operating system or a distribution has pretty good tools to achieve this - rpm, deb, etc. But if you need to, let's say, update the views, users will simply loose their customized views. There is no way around this. Regards, Ales On Monday, June 24, 2013 7:56:47 PM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote: > > How do you guys release upgrades of your own apps? > > The setup is: > > - You write a web2py app and release the code. > - Several people install it on their servers. > - They change the database connection string, and little more. It works > for real. > - Over time, they customize css files, even some views. > - You write non-radical updates for your web2py app, but that includes > models, controllers, views, and static js and css files. > > Now you want them to install the new code, but they have to update the one > line in db.py that connects to the database, and they want to keep their > data, logos, css, and views. > > I didn't find a standard place in the book for this. > > Thanks for your ideas/suggestions > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
