When Flarum will support extension upgrade from the UI?

peopleinside

Hi, the question is the title of this discussion: when Flarum will support upgrade of extension from UI?
Is already possible by installing an extension?
The function will be included in the core in the future?

Thanks.

Burial0268

I heard before that flarum has a package manager plugin in beta version for installing and updating plugins, is it true?

SychO

Wellwisher

Imagine if that happens, it's gonna be the "wordpress" of community building platforms for future. That's gonna be nutty.

The biggest issue that the developers will face implementing this will be ensuring extensions do not break users current set-ups. A "undo" button will be nice 😛.

I know with SimpleMachines forum software, when an extension was installed, it will give admins a pre-installation error report to say, "You're trying to install this extension however, a 'certain piece of code' is not working and if you choose to continue, it cud break ur forum. If u continue, u need make 'some' code modifications manually."
SMF will then show u wot modifications an admin had to make to ensure an extension wud be operational.

This saved an admin a lot of headache because you could normally tell if an extension will work or not just from a pre-check.

With flarum extensions, u dont know if it will break something until you install it in ur hosting environment.

peopleinside

Is possible to install the Package Manager?
If yes, how?
When this will be available to Flarum?

dragsugur

peopleinside composer require flarum/package-manager:"@beta"

i use this on my test forum. did not get any major errors yet

peopleinside

I am asking if install a beta extension cause issue on a stable forum that is not in beta.

xiahuan710

What a good idea, we need it very much.

peopleinside

Installed, seems work fine and update correctly. Thanks!

Subarist

Cool, just click the mouse and the job is done

Umutcan

Subarist How can we do this?

peopleinside

Now I get issues from using Flarum Package Manager:
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/32629-issues-on-upgrading-to-flarum-702

Subarist

peopleinside
Yes, the same, the Flarum Package Manager has lost its function after an operation in the past few days, I currently remove it first

luceos

Umutcan

composer require flarum/package-manager:"@beta"

peopleinside

Subarist anks for the feedback, remove and reinstall never solve. I cannot anymore use the Package Manager. I don't understand if is just broken his database.. I hope my Flarum is not compromised. Hope someone if Flarum will give more news about that.

luceos

peopleinside we don't know. Open a new discussion in support and provide the necessary information from https://docs.flarum.org/troubleshoot

Understand that under normal circumstances, in Flarum, a database cannot become corrupt. But it highly depends on the extensions you use.

peopleinside

Done, thank you!