Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- Subject: Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- From: Corvus <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:29:54 -0700
We have an update program that looks in its plist for programs to update.
The dictionary for the program would consist of the program's name, its
version number and where to get itself at. The update program looks to
the site listed to see if the version is newer or not - if it is, it
lists it as available to upgrade (or automatically downloads it - that
would be a thing for the user to decide, I think).
This is OK so far as it goes, but may I suggest some changes that would
make an automatic updater more generally useful?
Users should be able to create their own dictionaries, so if you are a
network admin you would be able to able to specify versions and locations
of files, apps, extensions, and so on, that are to be downloaded by all
machines in your LAN and, more importantly, files which are NOT to be
updated, no matter how much the author wants you to update them. This will
prevent disasters where the latest version of a program breaks all your
company pages *cough* IE 6 *cough*.
Perhaps this could be integrated with the Location Manager.
Another suggestion: you need a more stable way of identifying programs
than their names and version numbers, neither of which are unique or
persistent.