Re: WWDC Dev Tools / Software update
Re: WWDC Dev Tools / Software update
- Subject: Re: WWDC Dev Tools / Software update
- From: Ken Tabb <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:58:18 +0100
And so it was that Scott Tooker said on 21/6/01 5:31 am:
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Given that the full Developer Tools .dmg is around 100-120MB in
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size, would developers still find it useful to have such a large
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download available via Software Update? Also, are developer updates
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something that developers would find they want to access via
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Software Update (since currently you can't store the updater
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separately for later use)?
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Scott
I'm not sure I see the difference between Software update speed and
manual download speed... you're using the same internet connection for
both, so how does it matter which piece of software did it? Are the
software update tomes not compressed?
The only time I would see this making a difference is when you want to
keep the installer, to use on several machines (your LAN being typically
faster than your internet connection). Even then, if it was downloaded
(manually) and put on Zip/Jaz/CD etc. to bring home / to the other
machines, you don't *have* to accept Software Update's advice... you
could defer the Software Update installation, then manually install the
copy you burned to CD at work, then next time you use Software Update, it
would stop reminding you (surely?)
For me, improvements to Software Update would (as a previous lister
mentioned) include:
[1] The ability to say "Yes I know there's an IE update but I will never
need it so stop telling me"
[2] The ability to save the installer to disk for reuse
[3] The ability to say "you don't need to get that from the web as I have
a copy in /myFolder which you can use", so that system reinstalls are
still done in the Apple preferred order, but you don't have to sit there
downloading several tomes which you already own.
Just some thoughts,
Ken
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Ken Tabb.
Mac & UNIX C/C++/Java developer (Health & Human Sciences),
Machine Vision researcher/programmer (Computer Science),
University of Hertfordshire, England
http://www.health.herts.ac.uk/ken/
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