On 8/9/2013 10:54 AM, Dave Loyall wrote:
Subsequent discussion of this matter has focused on finding an
acceptable way to receive a ping from new installs.
That's because sending, receiving, and tracking pings are the goals of
the new feature.
Little or nothing has been said about how to track the latest version,
or how to help the user install the latest version.
That's because those aren't goals of the "automatic update feature".
Therefore, I propose to scrap the "update" part and simply implement a
ping feature instead.
Here is a DRAFT:
"""Hello, user. This is a message from the Leo developers. We have no
idea how many people use Leo. Click here to send us a ping. The
exact content of your transmission will be "HTTP GET
/leo/newinstall/linux/python3.14", which as you can see includes
information about your OS and python version. and the receiver has
been configured to forget your IP address but remember the date and
time and the information you sent us. You can send different
information if you like by editing ping.leo, blah blah. We really
appreciate it!"""
This will be easier to implement. Most of the work will be on the
server-side.
It will also be more transparent. That's a VERY important quality.
Will many folks abstain from participation? Yes. That's their
choice. And I think that, unfortunately for us, it TRUMPS our need to
know how many people use Leo.
I hope that this helps.
Cheers,
--Dave
I think this is a very good draft. Makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately
it only captures new installs. Perhaps it could also check for a key in
the database, so it catches existing installs when they update via bzr?
The key would be a simple boolean, whether or not they've seen the
dialog. After that first time, it would never bother them again,
regardless of their choice.
-->Jake
On Friday, August 9, 2013 9:13:09 AM UTC-5, dufriz wrote:
Couldn't you include an automatic update feature into the program,
which will signal the presence of an instance of Leo being used?
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