I couldn't readily find a doc on how where the items in the Install Scripts list come from...
I see today that LimeSurvey is listed (great!) at 1.71+, and that there is a 1.72 on Limesurvey.org/Sourceforge, and checking cPanel, Fantastico is at 1.72.
I am just wondering what the update mechanism is, and should I petition the Limesurvey guys to somehow notify/update something or other when they make a new stable release?
(Obviously, this specific case is a tiny one, but maybe there's some procedural thing that we users can do to help keep Vmin as up to the moment as is prudent)
Thanks, K<br><br>Post edited by: kenlyle, at: 2009/01/16 02:17
Joe/Jamie has a script they use to make any updates to the installed script. Of course you can install a unsupported version at any time.
Yeah, I can see that it's a messy problem.
It may be possible to mine the News page for each product where updates are published. For LimeSurvey, it's http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=74605 - It seems that 1.72 was released in October of 2008.
It may be possible to use other repositories of update information. I somewhat reluctantly suggest that the Fantastico page at http://netenberg.com/fantastico_scripts.php might or some other tapping of the Fantastico list or the Installatron list, etc. might be helpful in knowing what to look for.
Could there be a link next to each app in the Install Apps list for reporting version number and/or the URL of the new version?
Best,
Ken
Historically, we're usually well ahead of Fantastico in our revisions...so, I don't think there's anything useful to be gleaned from their website.
It looks like Jamie's script isn't correctly detecting LimeSurvery updates. File a bug (that's what I mean by "let us know" when it comes to any issues like this--Jamie only monitors the bug tracker), and he can look into it.
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OK, Duh. Sorry. Done.
http://www.virtualmin.com/index.php?option=com_flyspray&Itemid=82&am...
Thanks!
K
Virtualmin 3.65 will indeed support Limesurvey 1.72.
There was a bug in my detection of new Limesurvey versions, but it is fixed now..
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Yes, Jamie has written a polling script that checks the home page of each of our supported scripts every day. That said, if you notice that we do a release that doesn't include the latest version of something and we've missed it by more than a day or two, let us know. Sometimes the website of the project changes and our update script fails to find a new version (and some projects just have unpredictable websites and it's never possible to automatically find the version).
We <i>do</i> need to come up with a better way to distribute updates, though, since scripts are being updated nearly every day, and we only do Virtualmin virtual-server module releases every couple of weeks (3.65 is coming today or tomorrow).
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