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

On Mar 30, 2004, at 11:55 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:

On Mar 30, 2004, at 9:11 AM, Jim Rankin wrote:

On Mar 29, 2004, at 3:48 PM, Alastair Houghton wrote:

The locate database is very useful, but IMO it isn't something you
should rely on from code, at least not on Mac OS X.

Would it be possible for the application to tell locate to update it's
database, or set the cron job for the user? First time might be slow,
but should be quick after that, right?

It would be much faster just to search the drive than to update the locate database every time.

Offer a preference to indicate where my applications are stored. Of course, you'd be allowed to specify multiple locations. You could have a button that would search all drives and collect folders that it found apps in (preferably finding common folders used rather than the folder an application was in: ie. Applications vs. BBEdit folder in Applications).

I know the idea is to to try and make the software super smart so you never have to "set" any data, but it seems pretty clear that's unrealistic at this point in time. In fact, I want more control of where an updater program searched for Apps because while I might have my applications on another drive in a folder called "MySpecialApps" -- I don't want to receive update notices on an application I downloaded into my "Downloads" folder.

Mark
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References: 
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Steven Palm <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Reed Hedges <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Eugene Lee <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Jim Rankin <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>)



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