is there a way to exclude certain files from the update

[ferfr]

Hey guys I have the following situation here:

I have a lil payments webApp, our customers can install it on their IIS and work with it. They can upload their own logotype.

We are using WyBuild to update this apps, but it replaces all files on the web folder with the new version, and if I don't include the folder on the update it will delete it. So our customer's the logotypes are deleted/replaced

I'd like to know if is there a way to exclude certain files from the update, placing them on a different folder is not an option because since it is a web application they have to be on the same location, otherwise it won't load the image.

Any thoughts?


Thanks !

[Sam]

The way to exclude files from being deleted is to remove the file or folder from all the old version tabs in wyBuild. This way wyBuild won't know the file/folder exists and thus won't try to delete it.

Does that make sense?

[masseyf]

I agree that that would be an excellent improvement. It's kind of inconvenient to have to go to all previous releases and deleted files. It would be much simpler to just fill in a filter field, per release, for files types (like *.ext) or filenames to exclude. For example, exclude *.log and license.xml files.

Btw, is there a guide on your site that details the exact data flow that happens when installing a patch? I'm not clear on how and when files get deleted. Let me know where it is located if I overlooked it.

[Sam]

Btw, is there a guide on your site that details the exact data flow that happens when installing a patch? I'm not clear on how and when files get deleted. Let me know where it is located if I overlooked it.

We imply the behavior, but we don't have a diagram that explicitly explains how wyBuild compares versions and generates patches. We're going to make this.

In the meantime, here's the Reader's Digest version of how wyBuild compares your versions. Firstly you should add all your files and folders to every version in wyBuild. Then, when you click "Build Updates" this is how wyBuild decides which files to add as a full file, which files to delete, and which files to generate a patch for.

• If a file/folder exists in an old version but doesn't exist in the latest version then wyBuild sees that to mean "delete the file/folder upon installation of the update".
• If a file exists in both the old version and the latest version then wyBuild compares the files byte-by-byte to generate the smallest possible patch.
• If a file exists only in the lates version then wyBuild includes the file as a whole file.

Does that clarify things?

[masseyf]

Pretty simple when explained like that...