On Dec 16, 2009, at 2:32 PM, mdipierro wrote: > I agree. > > We could make a plugin for distribution without renaming the files > inside. web2py admin would be able to unpack the plugin over the > existing app thus updating the files but it would not recognize the > content as plugin files (because appadmin does not start with > plugin_*) therefore the content would not be listed under the plugin > section. > > Is this the same that you have in mind?
Something like that, yes. Though I was thinking it might make sense for appadmin to *be* a plugin, formally, since it's functionality that one might well remove from an app, too. I'm not pushing the idea too hard; it was just slightly more than an idle thought I had while doing the update manually. > > Massimo > > On Dec 16, 4:17 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: >> On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:28 PM, mdipierro wrote: >> >>> On the one side it may be a good idea to have some of the generic >>> views and appadmin be implemented as a plugin. And this will happen in >>> the future. >> >>> On the other side we do not guarantee backward compatibility for those >>> since they become part of your application. We only guarantee that the >>> framwork continues to work with them. In fact as you change the layout >>> you may need to edit web2py_ajax and or appadmin. In general if your >>> app works you do not want to upgrade those files. >> >> Of course, just because it's a plugin (if it/they were) doesn't mean that >> I'd have to update them; it would just make it easier. And it's likely that >> they wouldn't have been edited, so upgrading would be straightforward. >> >> As for wanting to upgrade them, it might well be unnecessary, of course, but >> if I wanted my app to take advantage of new features (primarykey in the >> recent case), I'd need to. And personally, I prefer to keep that kind of >> stuff up to date on (admittedly vague) general principles. >> >> In any event, I'll wait for the future to show up... >> >> >> >>> Massimo >> >>> On Dec 16, 12:30 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: >>>> I was updating a small web2py app this morning, after moving to 1.74.2, >>>> and in doing so I diffed some of its files against the current welcome >>>> app, and noticed that a lot of the appadmin code (that I hadn't modified) >>>> had been updated (primarykey support, for example). >> >>>> Likewise, web2py_ajax.html was considerably changed. >> >>>> I haven't been following the plugin discussion very closely, so I'm not >>>> sure that it's quite the right mechanism, but it seems to me that it might >>>> make sense for appadmin, and perhaps web2py_ajax, to be implemented/named >>>> as plugins, to make it more obvious that it's generic web2py functionality >>>> that might want to be updated along with the rest of the framework. >> >>>> Along those lines, another thing that would have come in handy would have >>>> been a virgin copy of the template (welcome) app that I used to build my >>>> own app. If I had that, it'd be easier to diff the current template app >>>> against the one I used, and to distinguish between changes made to the >>>> web2py distribution from the changes I had made. I could do that manually, >>>> of course, but it didn't occur to me at the time. >> >>> -- >> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "web2py-users" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
