Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- Subject: Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- From: Andreas Monitzer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:02:01 +0200
On Monday, September 10, 2001, at 05:40 , Chris Boot wrote:
The procedure for finding out whether an application needs updating is
rather simple. The updater framework would download an XML file which the
updateable application's plist file points to, and compare version numbers
and the like. If the file on the server is newer, the user is asked
whether
the download should be performed. If yes, the updated file is downloaded
from the server (the URL is retrieved from the XML plist file on the
server)
and the user asked whether to install the update automatically or to leave
it in the downloads folder and let the user take care of it.
So what do people think?
What about using timestamps instead of version numbers for that XML? That
would make it more versatile and easier to check.
The whole thing sounds pretty nice, however I'd go framework-only, since I
don't see any need for a central application.
andy
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