Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- Subject: Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- From: Charles Bennett <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 15:18:17 -0400
I would use it. I also agree that this is something that would lend itself to
a GPL'd product because the security of such a system would necessarily need to be open
to scurinty.
This would also be a selling point for the software and the platform so all would
gain. So.. we should meet over at source forge :-)
chuck
Matthew Cox wrote:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Just wondering if anyone would use this in their software.
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