Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"
Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"
- From: Kevin Ballard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:35:00 -0500
On Mar 24, 2004, at 4:16 PM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
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Uh. What's "Games"? Right now, Shovel scans:
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/Applications
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/Developer/Applications
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~/
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I've never seen "Games" on any machine.
I have a ~/Games folder, and I assume other people do that too (I'm
guessing there's probably some people with a /Games folder as well).
Oh, I forgot about /Developer/Applications as well. But why scan all of
the home folder? The only necessary folder is ~/Applications (and, in
my case, ~/Games)? Nothing else is useful.
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> This will keep it from scanning my dev directory (which is good
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> because anything that's in development shouldn't be updated as it's
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> *in development*), which will keep it from spending 10 minutes on my
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> darwinports directory. It also keeps it from scanning any other
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> arbitrary directory. The directories to scan should also be a pref,
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> but defaulting to those 4 listed above.
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I'd prefer to avoid having options in there. The less people have to
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set up, the better.
Right, that's why you default it to where you expect stuff to be, but
give the user a choice to specify other locations.
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> Also (I don't know if you do this already since it's stil scanning my
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> darwinports directory, but I doubt it), once you're done scanning,
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> save the whole thing out to disc.
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Shovel uses a Cache.
Does it automatically update the cache on launch for modified folders?
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Uh what? I guess your main thread is still blocked? You don't need to
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do anything to actively check for updates. When it scans your hard
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disk, it will automatically check for new versions. The only thing you
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can do after that is to "update marked", if you want.
I know. The main thread isn't blocking either, as it continues to scan
after finding the app. But the app never gets off the "checking..."
state. And when I re-launch Shovel it still never gets past
"checking...".
--
Kevin Ballard
email@hidden
http://www.tildesoft.com
http://kevin.sb.org
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