[Typo3-dev] Feature request: Integrated update function in Typo3

[Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >]]

Joachim Scholtysik wrote:
> wouldn't it be nice to have a possibility to check if there is an
> update for TYPO3 and to have a mechanism or a button in the left
> frame of TYPO3 to let the system download this new version und
> automatically install it ?

not with PHP since PHP normally has a max execution time.
depending on the bandwidth of your server, this might become a problem.

> The installed extensions have to be checked as well, e.g. eventually
> dependencies between the new version to download and to install and
> already installed extensions so that the installation does not get
> broken.

All in all this is just comparing some strings.

> Could that be realized in an extension?

in java maybe.

> Webedition 3 which I use in my company, has such a bombastic update
> function. You have a menu entry "Update", then you can select whether
> you want to make a backup before or not and then Webedition downloads
> all new files and installs them. At the end Webedition gets started
> again by itself. Simple, simple, simple...

AFAIK WE utilizes java for this stuff.
You need write access to the server in order to set up the symlinks right
(assuming you use them) and so on and so on.