2009/1/28 Vivia Nikolaidou <vi...@ee.auth.gr>
> 2. Proposal concerning the auto update function: Shouldn't we extend the
>> auto update to be able to update files of the core? (Not for major releases,
>> only for minor updates!) I think it would be a good thing as there are many
>> protocol changes recently and it would help to fix minor bugs a lot faster
>> because we are able to spread single core files instead of having to create
>> a complete release that takes a lot of time. What do you think?
>>
>
> It's a good thought in theory, but in fact there might be many more changes
> reflected to other files as well. For example, imagine adding an extra
> argument to a proc on protocol.tcl and the respective change on gui.tcl
> regarding the way it's called. Then we distribute protocol.tcl because of a
> later protocol change and suddenly the "stable" revision bugs. We'd need to
> distribute the patch instead, or think of a smarter way to do it.
>
> It's a good idea however, and if someone can think of a better way to do
> it, it would be nice to include it in 0.98.
In theory we could only deliver patches and add a binary of "patch" to the
package for those OS that don't have patch in their repository by default.
That would be the perfect way to distribute the patches.
But my original idea was to keep on merging the changes in SVN from trunk to
the branch of the release, and there make all the modified files, since the
release, available for the auto updater. Maybe compressing them in one file
would be better to keep the load of the server and the traffic low, but I
think there shouldn't be any problems as long as we pay the same attention
on what updates we offer for autoupdate as we do for a normal release.
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