ofcourse, this behaviour should be controllable from the end user's perspective ... so that they can turn that off if they want ... and they should be aware that an update is hapenning.
Etienne On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:27 AM, e deleflie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
