[web2py] Re: upgrade your own app

2013-06-25 Thread LightDot
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

[web2py] Re: upgrade your own app

2013-06-24 Thread Niphlod
for models, it's as easy as using a single file called models/0_connection.py that holds the customizable bits (e.g. the DAL connection string) and using a models/db.py for your static things, i.e. your define_tables statements. For updates to views that they customized in the meantime and you

[web2py] Re: upgrade your own app

2013-06-24 Thread Tim Richardson
This sounds a lot like the reason shared version control was invented, which provides tools to manage simultaneous development on the same code base. This is actually how web2py is developed, although of course with the expectation that changes will be merged. Look at github. -- --- You

Re: [web2py] Re: upgrade your own app

2013-06-24 Thread pang
I was looking at comparisons of such websites, but I though that must be a common issue fo web2py developers, so that's why I asked. I can design the app in such a way that this problem does not arise, but it would take more work and I would be wasting the great admin interface. My time is

Re: [web2py] Re: upgrade your own app

2013-06-24 Thread Tim Richardson
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