Update procedure a bit tedious

[hacklschorsch]

I don't know if this is very relevant or important, but I find updating the drfrederson engine for an existing site a bit tedious ATM. I just did it using some git and rsync kung fu ala git diff --name-only 03a6af8ce4b43f..HEAD to check which files changed since I started working on my site (and then rsync --verbose --recursive --delete to update them...). I have no concrete idea how to make the update process a one-liner though. Maybe make it so one only has to update the _drf folder? I'm not sure whether this is easy though, or rather: worth the effort.

[klml]

"only update and install the _drf folder" would be my wish, but I got no idea how to create and update templates without an update script. Anny ideas?

[hacklschorsch]

Not at hand. Symlinks don't work in Windos. And I wouldn't like something over-engineered, as its tiny footprint is one of drfrederson biggest strengths. I'll see if I can come up with something.

[klml]

You are right. At least the /source/ directory has to be free.

I thought about an _drf/sourcedefault directory in _drf for areas, adminpage etc and an overwrite for from /source/. But this would be content from another source and so a surprise for the user.

So I cleared the /source an you can copy this files at setup.

Now it is possible to have an extra repo in /source, also as subtrees (if you have git >= 1.7.11 )

Next I have to think about /templates, should I do the same? With some examples in _drf.

[hacklschorsch]

Excellent! Thank you!

Instead of _drf maybe I would create a new directory examples and put two directories source and template in there together with a short readme.txt explaining to move the directories one level up to get a working demo installation.

What do you think?

[klml]

Yes, an example dir in the webroot is better to understand. Also for scatterd files like robots.txt ;)(Done

But I have no readme.txt, this will overwrite my general readme.txt in the webroot. So I just documented it in Setup.

(there I have another problem: due to submodules I can't provide an vanilla ftp install)