Create post install script so we can gracefully update internals across versions

Question

Create post install script so we can gracefully update internals across versions

Opened this issue 6 years ago · 2 comments

When we want to modify something internal from mergify we will have some users that still have the previous version. To not break on update with for instance config changes I suggest we use a post install script to verify that mergify can run, otherwise perform migration.

Answer 1 · 2018-04-27T09:21:17.000Z

Totally agree.
I'm not sure I understand what postinstall should actually do.

Convert any existing config to the new format?

Answer 2 · 2018-04-27T11:18:29.000Z

@jlengrand that was indeed what I was thinking.
However I doubt that it's going to be limited to that.

For instance the issue #29 that you've opened, we could show a message after update that the API has changed and invoke the help message.