Already did that a few days ago. Thanks. nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Ringer" <[email protected]> To: <scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:55 AM Subject: Re: [Scribus] updates
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 03:04:38PM -0500, Nicholas Vettese wrote: >> I am currently using the Windows version of Scribus, and I was >> wondering if there will ever be an "Update" link in the Help section >> to update the version of Scribus you are using. Since Linux is a >> continual improvement alone, getting updates are easy. Just wondering >> if there was a plan for the future. > > Good idea. Please file a bug with severity "feature" requesting the > feature. It should not actually be too hard to do with a Scribus plug-in > that at least tells you that there's a new version. Since Qt has > built-in HTTP support, it'd be a simple matter of GETting a file from > scribus.net or using HEAD to check a timestamp. Scribus might even be > able to download it for you and start the installer, but initially the > plug-in should probably just tell your web browser to download the file. > > We could ship such a plug-in with Scribus pretty easily, and it wouldn't > be too hard to make it cross platform (at least to make it alert the > user to new versions on Mac OS X and Windows; Linux is less practical > until/unless we can get static builds going). > > If I find a spare millon years I'll do it myself. Otherwise it might be > a fun project for someone who wants to get involved in coding for > Scribus, since it'll involve minimal work on Scribus its self - just a > ScPlugin-derived plugin class and some Qt code. Once I'm back from > holiday I'll be happy to help out anyone interested on IRC. > > -- > Craig Ringer > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
