Hi Louis,
Happy holidays! :-)
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
On 12/24/05 10:54 PM MalikZZ wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but OpenOffice could use a
Update feature like
Windows Update and many other non-MS programs (esp
anti-virus programs
where users download small definition files). I would
be grateful if
the updates came in smaller doses rather than having
to download the
entire OpenOffice program.
It could....Many others, for a long time, have also wanted this. The
issue is that those who have wanted it have not also been those who
could make it.
I think such a feature, which is present on StarOffice, would be
terrific. One could even have something like Thunderbird's automatic
update. But, developers (or developer companies) need to be interested
in this sort of thing.
Has anyone tried to do a simple diff of installed files between
versions? As long as there isn't much variability in install
destinations, it may not require much coding to create a patch. But it
would still require work and someone dedicated to the task; otherwise,
no one will trust it.
I think the feature would be nice but I suspect only windows users would
be interested. Most Linux/BSD users prefer to use the update facility
provided by their package management system, which typically does
package replacement rather than package modification.
I do like the idea of an update facility on windows like windows update,
which MS Office does have. The only problem with Office update is that
it sometimes insists that you have that darn Office cd! Since OOo has
never required a cd for anything, it would already be ahead of the game.
Perhaps an OOo update applet written in Java for windows users? That
could be a pretty cool project for someone looking to contribute, a
project with limited scope that wouldn't require weeks of reading source
code. Of course, if using it resulted in a broken system, there would
be a lot of angry people! :-)
Cheers,
Ed
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