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Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"

On Mar 24, 2004, at 4:16 PM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:

> Uh. What's "Games"? Right now, Shovel scans:
>
> /Applications
> /Developer/Applications
> ~/
>
> I've never seen "Games" on any machine.

I have a ~/Games folder, and I assume other people do that too (I'm
guessing there's probably some people with a /Games folder as well).

Oh, I forgot about /Developer/Applications as well. But why scan all of
the home folder? The only necessary folder is ~/Applications (and, in
my case, ~/Games)? Nothing else is useful.

>> This will keep it from scanning my dev directory (which is good
>> because anything that's in development shouldn't be updated as it's
>> *in development*), which will keep it from spending 10 minutes on my
>> darwinports directory. It also keeps it from scanning any other
>> arbitrary directory. The directories to scan should also be a pref,
>> but defaulting to those 4 listed above.
>
> I'd prefer to avoid having options in there. The less people have to
> set up, the better.

Right, that's why you default it to where you expect stuff to be, but
give the user a choice to specify other locations.

>> Also (I don't know if you do this already since it's stil scanning my
>> darwinports directory, but I doubt it), once you're done scanning,
>> save the whole thing out to disc.
>
> Shovel uses a Cache.

Does it automatically update the cache on launch for modified folders?

> Uh what? I guess your main thread is still blocked? You don't need to
> do anything to actively check for updates. When it scans your hard
> disk, it will automatically check for new versions. The only thing you
> can do after that is to "update marked", if you want.

I know. The main thread isn't blocking either, as it continues to scan
after finding the app. But the app never gets off the "checking..."
state. And when I re-launch Shovel it still never gets past
"checking...".

--
Kevin Ballard
email@hidden
http://www.tildesoft.com
http://kevin.sb.org

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References: 
 >[ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Kevin Ballard <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>)



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