Core Updater
This module brings the tools for keeping your shop installation up to date.
Description
This module is designed to be a breeze for non-technical users as well as a versatile tool for thirty bees experts.
- It uses the strategies also used by the popular Git tool, in a fashion easily handleable by merchants.
- One can choose between stable releases and bleeding edge versions.
- Updates are a matter of only a few clicks.
- Before an update happens, the module lists files which are going to be changed.
- Manually edited files get detected and marked in these file lists, so the coding-savy merchant can deal with them before updating.
- Manually edited files also get backed up before they get overwritten.
- Shop downtime for an update has shown to be usually less than a second.
- Downgrades are just as easy as updates. In case the most recent release leaves wishes open.
- One can even do a null-update, for comparing against and restoring to a clean installation.
- All custom shop files, like product images, customer uploads and such stuff get preserved, of course.
- Best of all this: bleeding edge versions get updated in an automated fashion, so even a non-technical merchant can update to a bugfix branch, a few minutes after it was pushed to thirty bees' development repository. No more waiting for the next release or editing code files, just to get a crucial bug fixed immediately.
License
This software is published under the Academic Free License 3.0
Contributing
thirty bees modules are Open Source extensions to the thirty bees e-commerce solution. Everyone is welcome and even encouraged to contribute with their own improvements.
For details, see CONTRIBUTING.md in the thirty bees core repository.
Packaging
To build a package for the thirty bees distribution machinery or suitable for importing it into a shop, run tools/buildmodule.sh of the thirty bees core repository from inside the module root directory.
For module development, one clones this repository into modules/ of the shop, alongside the other modules. It should work fine without packaging.
Roadmap
Short Term
Long Term
- Implement applying single commits.
- Instead of doing updates by exchanging files, try to do them by applying patches. This should help preserving manual code changes. It also needs instrumentation to deal with conflicts.