You're right, the payment scheme doesn't fit well with the CD idea. I am still not clear on how to go about that. I was thinking in giving up the idea of the CDs and just ask people to somehow download the updates by hand if their server is not hooked to the internet. They will have to connect from certain IP though.

The reason why it cannot be a MySQL batch file is because the update algorithm is not very simple, it requires a lot of perl code to analyze when a field is considered customized and when it is not.

The versioning number will be in this form: YYYYMMDD, thanks for your suggestion.

In reply to Re^2: Designing a monthly software and database update for a web app by amonroy
in thread Designing a monthly software and database update for a web app by amonroy

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