[Mapbender-dev] Version-number at mapbender.conf

[Samson, Marko]

Hi devs,

Astroid, sorry, Astrid and me just had a little mail-conference about the mapbender_setup.php.

Summary of our thoughts:
For the current mapbender_setup and the further development, it would be nice to have a version number at one central point, like the mapbender.conf.

For the curent version, just for displaying it at the mapbender_setup.
For further version, to create a dynamic update script for the installed version. (for example)


Example:

1. mapbender.conf has version 2.4.0

2. mapbender.conf-dist has version 2.5.0 (or furture mapbender-setup script has the latest version number hardcoded)

3.The future mapbender-setup update function will get the required database changes from a historized database-changes file (txt,xml,json ...whatever?!) 

current version 2.4.0<->new version 2.5.0 = create an update script from version 2.4.1 up to 2.5.0 from database-changes file ......

<version 2.4.1 changes>
	<CREATE TABLE layer_epsg_tmp AS SELECT DISTINCT * FROM layer_epsg;>......
<version 2.5.0 changes>
	<ALTER TABLE wfs_conf_element ADD COLUMN f_auth_varname VARCHAR(50);>......

4. run script
5. and so on


What do you think about a version number at the conf?
What do you think about the idea for expand the mapbender_setup of mapbender with an update function? Any ideas or thoughts?!


	




Greetings,
Marko Samson


Marko Samson
Landesbetrieb Wald und Holz NRW
GIS-Anwendungsentwicklung
Referat I-5
Albrecht-Thaer-Straße 34
48147 Münster

Tel.: 0251/91797 - 169
Mail: marko.samson at wald-und-holz.nrw.de