Most mac apps solve this by having the app exit as part of the upgrade
process, this way a new copy is launched w/ the new resources.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 4:40 AM, John Grabowski <[email protected]> wrote:

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>> How will in-place updating work on the Mac and Linux?
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> To be frank, we haven't solved this problem on Mac.
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> Right now we're doing an rsync to klobber on update, which is fine for
> pre-dogfood.  E.g. our "normal" Mac crash rate far exceeds any possible
> crashes caused by version mismatching in the 3 auto-updates we have sent out
> internally.
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> Although we could load all resources on startup, that ignores one critical
> piece.  Since renderers are separate processes and are launched on-demand,
> we would still have the problem of "old browser" talking to "new renderer".
>

All platforms would have this problem if they don't force the apps to bounce
as part of the upgrade process, no?

TVL


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> I suspect we'll need to have either a versioned scheme line Windows, or a
> "complete upgrade" step on initial launch.
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