Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- Subject: Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- From: Chris Boot <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:34:50 +0200
Hi,
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Users should be able to create their own dictionaries, so if you are a
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network admin you would be able to able to specify versions and locations
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of files, apps, extensions, and so on, that are to be downloaded by all
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machines in your LAN and, more importantly, files which are NOT to be
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updated, no matter how much the author wants you to update them. This will
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prevent disasters where the latest version of a program breaks all your
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company pages *cough* IE 6 *cough*.
To create or modify an updater dictionary, you would simple have to create /
modify an updater plist file and put it in the application. Nothing like
that is built into the application's code, it would all be in this file.
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Perhaps this could be integrated with the Location Manager.
Well, Mac OS X has no location manager as such (only for network settings).
How were you planning to integrate it anyway?
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Another suggestion: you need a more stable way of identifying programs
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than their names and version numbers, neither of which are unique or
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persistent.
Well, no program is "identified" as such. There is a URL in the plist file
which the updater system accesses to get program info. This URL can be a
static plist or it could be a dynamically generated one depending on a
database and / or parameters it's passed.