Acorn Update Mechanism

[andybraren]

Features that would probably be needed for the self-hostable version eventually.

Site upgrade mechanism

A button to trigger an update of Acorn to the latest version. Example.

Page content update mechanism

If the page has not been touched since the upgrade date, then upgrade the file before displaying its contents to the user. Grab all fields and put them into the new format.

Also update the save mechanism to process the first few sentences of whatever for an automatic description that can be used in cards. Maybe there should be multiple fields depending on what’s needed, like:

title: Blah test
description: This is a manual description that should override the other in some places.
descriptionauto: This is the first however many lines of the main text field that can be used for cards or previews or whatever else.

• Update mechanism
• The Kirby team won't/shouldn't make this, since devs are supposed to test for broken things before updating their clients.
• Updating the page.txt fields to new versions needs to be reliable and safe
• Should probably rename the old folders to something like "kirby-v2.54" rather than delete them outright just in case something goes wrong and the person wants to revert their installation to a known-good config. Hmm. Reverting might not work well if it's a "breaking" change though, like a major version upgrade that changes page.txt files.
• https://forum.getkirby.com/t/page-update-with-remove-old-data/4861
• https://forum.getkirby.com/t/removing-and-organizing-fields-in-the-content/7867
• https://forum.getkirby.com/t/update-page-references-automatically/8041
• Automatic updates?
  • https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/131334/how-exactly-do-automatic-updates-work
• http://maxmorgandesign.com/simple_php_auto_update_system/