[development] Update.php re-design

[Nabil Alsharif]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 10:13 +1100, Gordon Heydon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Actually you have also missed the effort that I have been working on  
> to create an update.sh which is included directly into core. see http://drupal.org/node/233091 
>   which has a working version of update.php but runs from the shell.

I saw that issue. I even replied to it. A working version of update.php
that can be run in a script is the reason I started this whole thing.

> On 03/03/2009, at 2:24 AM, Nabil Alsharif 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
> 
> It is not a coupled as you think. other than the fixes, most of the  
> update.php/update.sh is all done in the batchapi. before the batch api  
> it was not as clean as it is now.

That is true, but people still have to manage the fixes, which means
they (you?) have to update the script every time update.php adds a new
fix. 

> I do have to question about how many ways do you need to do updates.  
> This is why I have been pushing a shell version as this can be  
> interfaced into anything that can run updates.

It's not about how many ways I want to do updates it about the fact that
you might want to do updates a different way then I do.

For example I am going to have to maintain a large number of drupal
sites. I have an upgrade process for these sites in place that includes
some non-standard (in a drupal context) processes. It would be awesome
if I could manage drupals database updates from there too, and the
easies way I see to do that is via a sane update API.
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