[Xerte-dev] Re: Pre 1.8 / Post 1.8

[Pat Lockley]

Wordpress polls an svn.

Well all Wordpress modules are hosted in an svn with a tag per version number and the trunk as the stable tag.

I wouldn't poll the svn, and wasnt suggest auto updating, merely look for one file with a time stamp in. That is the most up to date - the files all have web addresses so a curl would suffice.

Thoughts on the other question?

On 27 May 2012, at 12:40, David Goodwin <david at palepurple.co.uk> wrote:

> Polling svn is possible to check whether something is up to date, but I don't think automatic updates from svn is a good idea - the webserver may not have svn installed and you'd be stuck with using google code etc. And future branching / releasing may be difficult. 
> 
> A better approach is you have some sort of XML file on an official domain (Nottingham.ac.uk) which you could fetch and parse to find out the latest versions. 
> 
> Failing any of that what does wordpress do to check whether there are updates available ? Copying/using that would get my vote. 
> 
> David
> 
> David Goodwin 
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> On 26 May 2012, at 20:44, Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've got a WordPress module which does a half decent job of displaying
>> a http://simile.mit.edu timeline
>> 
>> It would be relatively trival to strip the code out and making a free
>> standing PHP class / creator.
>> 
>> With WordPress and Drupal, you can add new modules by using a
>> formatted text file in the modules, or plugins folder.
>> 
>> Would it make sense to remove, or allow for submission into
>> originaltemplatesdetails by basically looping over a folder? This way
>> it'd be simpler to add a module.
>> 
>> -------------------------------------
>> 
>> David / Tom - We could add a call to see if the SVN had updated as
>> part of the script? Would maybe help out on that front?
>> 
>> ------------------------------------
>> 
>> The bigger issue, is that if I do this (and the above makes sense even
>> without adding new things) some stuff created in XOT isn't Xerte.
>> 
>> My thinking was I can write a moodle extension to do it, but that's a
>> lot of work.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Pat
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