Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- Subject: Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- From: Alex Curylo <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 11:14:42 -0700
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I was thinking about how nice it is to update apple software using
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Software Update, and I was thinking about implementing a similar system.
http://www.ots.utexas.edu/sivc/
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Other developers would put a plugin or something into the Up2Date
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folder, and this would contain the URL to an XML file, which would allow
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the program to check to see if the latest software is new than the
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user's version. Then, it would download from the address in the XML file.
http://www.ots.utexas.edu/sivc/mac-query-engine/index.html
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This would be 100% open source, free of charge, probably distributed
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under the GPL. While the system would be free, any software using it for
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update services could be commercial or closed-source.
Then you need to offer it under either the LGPL or a BSDish license.
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Just wondering if anyone would use this in their software.
http://www.interarchy.com/ would be the most well known.
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