[Xerte-dev] Re: Fancy it

[Ron Mitchell]

There are all sorts of reason to avoid auto-updating exactly because there
isn't really a clear difference between core and some of the things people
want/need to customise. The most common but not only customisation often
required is themes and although there are ways to achieve that without
changing any core files it's a bit more complex than that especially as
we've had very different versions over time too. 

I agree this could be desirable and worth planning for at some future point
but there are other customisations that I'm aware of which at the moment can
only be achieved by customisation of core files and not really a set list
that we could say exclude from auto updates as a pre-defined group. A simple
example is static.php and I know that could easily be part of a pre-defined
exclusion list but that's just a simple example.

So to achieve this I think there would need to be some fundamental changes
and/or the ability for an admin to easily control exclusions.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 01 May 2014 12:33
To: xerte at pgogywebstuff.com; For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fancy it

Well we all know that but guys like RonM2 who need specific functionality
have no other way to do it.. then ended up locked at v1.7 for a while... i'm
in the process of rewriting Xenith to use a pub/sub approach and at some
point I will probably revisit the plugins idea as there are many other areas
that i'd like to provide hook points...

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat L (pgogy)
[xerte at pgogywebstuff.com]
Sent: 01 May 2014 12:10
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fancy it

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<mailto: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,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow
Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA

Please address ALL support requests to
hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk<mailto:hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk> where one of the School Learning
Technologists will pick up the job. This will ensure that all jobs are
completed as promptly as possible.
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ingham.ac.uk>
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tingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Pat L (pgogy)
[xerte at pgogywebstuff.com<mailto:xerte at pgogywebstuff.com>]
Sent: 30 April 2014 21:25
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Fancy it

http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/233-Automatic-Update-of-Packages-from-Ve
rsion-Control-Repositories.html

auto update from git?

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