Posted by rubenk on December 21, 2006 at 8:11am
I am probably not the first one to think of this but
why not have a "my modules" section that shows recent updates only of the modules that a user has downloaded either by allowing a user to specify which modules he/ she uses (e.g. radio buttons) or asking the user to login before downloading a module to track which ones have been downloaded or a combination of both methods.
It would Save me a lot of sifting especially if I could signup for email updates of new releases of my branch (ie. 5.0) of the modules I use or get an RSS feed or even just see it as an option on the modules page.
Anyone else find this useful?
If so, perhaps a formal feature request is in order.
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There was some talk about
There was some talk about the new module release system being able to to things like this. Checkout the latest podcast at lullabot.com - you might find that someone else is thinking along the same lines
I'll cheek it out.
I'll cheek it out.
you're on The money
Cheek it out! :)
that's the product of using a tablet pc.
the site is here
http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/drupal_podcast_no_28_derek_wright_and_...
CVS :)
If I'm following the development of anything, I check it out via CVS, rather then downloading the tarball.
I put all contributed modules into a
contributionsdirectory under modules - either under root or sites.Anytime I feel like it I can just cd to that directory and
CVS update- or use the built-in cvs support of my environment - right-click winCVS or Eclipse. to update any directory just like that.my notes on howto do this
.dan.
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I thought about this but I
I thought about this but I like "stable" fully baked releases
Something feels funny about using CVS on a production site
so say so
add
-r DRUPAL-4-7to lock your checkout into only the tagged stable versions..dan.
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you can get a specific release tag from CVS, too
you can also do this:
cd contributions/modules/foocvs update -r DRUPAL-4-7--1-2
if you want the 4.7.x-1.2 release of a specific module ("foo", in this case).
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these already exist as "formal" feature requests. ;)
http://drupal.org/node/94137 ("email subscriptions for release nodes")
http://drupal.org/node/94138 ("RSS feeds for release nodes")
http://drupal.org/node/94154 ("module page could say if new releases are available")
cheers,
-derek
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