[development] Update.php re-design

[Moshe Weitzman]

This makes sense, and I encourage you and others to proceed. There is
no good reason it has not been done so far.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Nabil Alsharif <nabil at gobrighttree.com> wrote:
> There seems to be a couple of projects that are trying to make
> update.php command line friendly, non of which seem to be going that
> well:
> http://drupal.org/node/194107
> http://acquia.com/blog/drupal-cli-utils
>
> The issue that I see is that update.php is tightly coupled with the UI.
> What I would like to do is pull the functions that preform the updates
> out of update.php so that it would be possible to have a different UIs
> to modules (Web interface, cli). There are two main reasons I would like
> to do this:
> 1. It would make the projects mentioned above much easier to implement.
> 2. The projects mentioned above have there own implementation of
> update.php that is independent of that way drupal updates the modules.
>
> I hope to endup with something along the lines of update.inc that holds
> the function for preforming the updates (i.e get_updates, do_update,
> db_add_column.. etc) and update.php that has the current UI for
> updates.
>
> Is there any reason that this hasn't been done before? More importantly
> does any one have any good reason to not separate preforming the updates
> from the UI?
>
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> Nabil Alsharif
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