Is there a way to make it very very easy for a Shoes application to be
auto-updated?

It would be brilliant if, for example, you could do this:

Shoes.setup do
   gem 'mechanize'
   getLatestVersion 'http://www.mywebsite.com/myapp.shy', :days => 7
end

Which would force the application to go search for newer code at that
URL (that url would just point to a shy file perhaps... I dont
know)... and install it. That way, when you updated your code (which
is all the time), all those who have downloaded your app will _always_
be able to easily have the new version.

This is modern software behaviour isn't?

The default behaviour might be check for updates at every launch ...
this might cause bad perception of launch time.... hence the :days =>
7 option.

Etienne

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