Stack version?

[Bill Vlahos]

I use Magic Carpet too and it is great.

However, this is something I want to make available to my users.

Bill 
On Saturday, May 26, 2007, at 05:55PM, "Andre Garzia" <soapdog at mac.com> wrote:
>Bill,
>
>I use Magic Carpet by Altuit <http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/ 
>MagicCarpetCover/default.htm>, this allows me to work in groups and  
>maintain previous versions in sane places. Also I usually have a  
>hidden field called "vers" in the stack that shows the version info  
>if opened in the IDE.
>
>most of my work is CGI and network related so having a field in a  
>stack is no issue since the user will never see it.
>
>Andre
>
>
>On May 26, 2007, at 9:42 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
>
>> I was wondering how others deal with versionioning their stacks. I  
>> don't mean the standalones which already have version information  
>> but regular stacks.
>>
>> I have a stack that is opened by a standalone stub. The standalone  
>> won't change much but the program stack that is opened will. I want  
>> to be able to do updates from the Internet that essentially  
>> replaces the stack.
>>
>> To do this I need to standardize on a way to code a version number  
>> in the stack and then compare the version the user has with that on  
>> the web server. If the web server version is newer I want to give  
>> the user the ability to download the new version which would  
>> replace the old version.
>>
>> I can come up with a way to do this but I'm pretty sure there are  
>> more experienced Revolutionaries on this list have have thought  
>> this over already.
>>
>> Bill Vlahos
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