2016-12-12 14:22 GMT+05:00 Samuli Seppänen <sam...@openvpn.net>:
> Il 11/12/2016 20:44, Илья Шипицин ha scritto:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> as we release new versions of openvpn installer, there are at least two
>> "channels"
>>
>> a) beta
>> b) stable
>>
>> should we also host some rss/atom feed with the most recent versions of
>> 2 channels ?
>>
>> so, that openvpn-gui could check "for updates"
>> also, there's an exception for WinXP (which I've no idea what to do with).
>>
>> it will help users to understand "new version is released, probably I
>> should upgrade".
>>
>
> Notifying the user would probably be ok, and for that we'd need some feed.
> The feed could be much simpler than RSS/Atom, if only machines would read
> it.
>
I considered PAD-files http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Check_online_for_Updates
there're two places for upgrading (or notifiyng user)
a) installer (in case user run old installer)
b) openvpn-gui itself
>
> That said, I think Windows application auto-updaters are very distracting,
> and I would prefer to publish new OpenVPN Windows packages in a Chocolatey
> repository:
>
> <https://chocolatey.org/>
>
I missed this one. it might be a better choice than PAD
https://chocolatey.org/packages/openvpn - there's already openvpn. should
we contact current maintainer ?
> Chocolatey, as "apt-get for Windows", would take care of OpenVPN upgrades
> in a clean and non-intrusive fashion. It also removes the need to reinvent
> the wheel in form of an auto-update daemon.
>
> Cholatey is not just a random third-party application for managing
> packages for Windows. It is also pluggable as a provider to a more generic
> Microsoft framework for managing package managers called OneGet. For
> details, look here:
>
> <https://github.com/OneGet/oneget>
> >https://chocolatey.org/faq>
> <http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AptGetForWindowsOneGetAndChoc
> olateyOnWindows10.aspx>
>
> One can use Chocolatey standalone, or use it as a OneGet package provider.
> We could possibly integrate Chocolatey setup with the standalone Windows
> installers as opt-in.
>
> Anyways, after OpenVPN 2.4.0 is out, I will setup a Chocolatey repository
> for OpenVPN snapshot packages and see how it works. That will enable the
> more adventurous Windows users to live on the very edge with minimal manual
> effort. It will also enable us to automate Windows snapshot testing with
> openvpn-windows-test[1].
>
> Samuli
>
> [1] <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-windows-test>
>
>
>> it is great amount of work, I think we can schedule it after 2.4
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ilya Shipitsin
>>
>>
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