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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Pflug
Sent: 21 November 2004 18:05
To: pgadmin-hackers
Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] RFC: Update wizard
Hi friends,
preparing for the forthcoming 1.3/1.4 version, I'm already prototyping a little on automatic updates, and there are a lot of decisions to take.
We have three areas to update:
- The program itself. We will just notify the user that there's something new he might be interested in (depending on beta/release).
An option to download/install would be nice. That would require a separate program on Windows of course to update the main executable.
What are you thinking about exactly ? A way to specify an external script/command to launch or something ? Under Linux and maybe others, I think that updaters generally do exactly the same thing, but generally less efficiently, as the native packaging systems. Example: I love the pear system for php but I consider that it clashes with the native packaging tools under Debian... By using pear system you get unpackaged files installed on your system.
And what about things partly installed (example data files not up to date with binaries) which may break the app...
I'd be for something advertising a new version but not more. Unless we have something really open and customisable to suits the needs of all OSes packagers.
Regards, Rapha�l
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