[Xerte-dev] Re: Fancy it

[Pat L (pgogy)]

Question is trade off of modifications vs "You need to upgrade" problems
Logically plugins solves this - you shouldn't really play with core


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

> I think for some areas it would be great, mainly the modules folder which
> contains a lot of client side stuff like xenith and scorms stuff. Problems
> with them often sit dormant until a particular page model or browser is
> used...
>
> I think Ron has made a good point aginst this in the past for a blanket
> auto update though in that people have tweaked some of the php files to do
> speciic things and we could break some peoples installs. I think that was
> my idea around having Wordpress style hooks in xerte. It means people can
> keep their code seperate from the core and then, if properly managed, their
> code should work on newer versions.
>
> Regards,
>
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> http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/233-Automatic-Update-of-Packages-from-Version-Control-Repositories.html
>
> auto update from git?
>
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