paulfm wrote:
Please consider having this warning pop-up ONLY if seamonkey detects
that a newer version is available.
Which version are you using? 2.46 is the latest officially released version.
Are update checks enabled at Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Software
Installation? If not, SeaMonkey won't know whether or not a newer
version is available to be able to apply that logic.
I think previous discussions a while back concluded that the "Your Copy
of SeaMonkey is old" warning only appears if SeaMonkey is configured not
to check for updates (perhaps also if update checks fail) and a certain
amount of time has elapsed since the installed release. The intention is
that period of time is chosen with expectation that a newer version will
have been released well before it elapses, but that involves a certain
element of predicting the future (and the next release has been delayed
far longer than expected).
If SeaMonkey is able to check for updates, I think it keeps quiet all
the time there is no newer version available, and does (as you suggest
below) say what the newer version is if it find that an update is available.
...
Maybe change the wording to "A newer version ({new-version-number})
of Seamonkey is available".
As far as I know, that's similar to what you do get when SeaMonkey is
configured to check for updates and finds that a newer version is
available. If it's able to check for updates and none are available, I
think it just keeps quiet.
Maybe use a dns entry to distribute the current version number (so
seamonkey can actually say what version is available and doesn't have
to check a web page). A dns TEXT entry of:
version.seamonkey.seamonkey-project.org should work
I'm not certain, but that seems like a misuse of DNS. It's the "Domain
Name System", not the "Software Version Notification System" ;o)
Although various metadata can be included in DNS records, it's usually
somehow related to the domain name rather than other random data someone
wants to distribute...
...
--
Mark.
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