On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, John Hood wrote: > For what platform? (That question is both practical and rhetorical.) > > This only makes sense for platforms that do not have an established > distribution system, and that we do builds for. That equals "OS X".
As it happens, OSX is the platform I use it for, so yes, that was practically what I was asking about. > In that case, we're probably best off using the Macintosh App Store, if > they allow/support distributing CLI apps that way. Well -- note my general question was as to the *check* for the updates. I.e. "am I running the current stable version", and if not, print a message. I'm not suggesting auto-downloads or anything of that nature. > As a general thing, we can't do this for all platforms, which all have > their own release schedules and methodologies, and where we are not > usually in control of the releases. Perhaps. If there's a newer version of the base mosh binary out, and it hasn't been packaged yet because the maintainer's of the OS package is off backpacking across europe, this is also a thing I'd want to know. This would be the kind of thing that could either happen once on invocation of mosh (i.e. every time I open a new connection -- perhaps with some state-tracking -- tell me no more than once a week). Or possibly, just when I run mosh --version (which, at least on OSX, doesn't even print the location to get it). Anyway, thanks for hearing me out. -Dan -- --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --------------------------- _______________________________________________ mosh-devel mailing list mosh-devel@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mosh-devel
