OpenOffice.org Software Update Notification
To support people to retrieve the latest version of OpenOffice.org
easily, we will add a new menu item called "Check for Updates..." into
the help menu. The mechanism to check for updates will only be activated
in the regular OpenOffice.org builds created by Hamburg release
engineering by default.
The menu item will be controlled by the entry "UpdateURL" in the
version.ini|rc file, located besides the Office executable. If the
"UpdateURL" entry has a value the menu item is visible otherwise it's
invisible. "Check for Updates..." retrieves the version information of
an installed OpenOffice.org and sends the data to the URL defined by
"UpdateURL". If an update is available it provides the URL pointing to
the download web page. OpenOffice.org starts the system browser to open
this web page. The user is able to download the latest version. If no
new version is available a message box with "No new update" will be shown.
For more (technical) information about this feature, please look into
the following specification:
http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/onlineupdate/Software_Update.odt
In the future we plan enable full automated notification on all
platforms (Windows, Linux, Solaris).
An automatic update of OpenOffice.org is currently not planned.
regards,
Martin
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