Automatic checking for program updates
Automatic checking for program updates
- Subject: Automatic checking for program updates
- From: Mike Abdullah <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 13:47:18 +0100
At present my app uses a really simple system to check for updates.
When you load the app, it runs a curl command from the command line.
This downloads a small text file which contains the current version
of the app. Having done that, the app opens the file and compares
that version number to the current one.
The trouble is, if the server that file is on is having problems
(pretty frequent at the moment!), the whole app freezes until the
file is able to be downloaded. i.e. the curl command just sits there
waiting for a response.
I am sure that this is a very poor way of doing things. Does anyone
have any better suggestions?
Cheers,
Mike.
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