On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:10:07PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Is there some kind of moral obligation to use the newest client code and > to not "tamper" with the code? Why not DRM it outright and distribute > only compiled binaries if that's what you want ;-) > > Honestly, whenever I run the client nowadays, which doesn't happen often > and mostly only for debugging, all that auto-version-check-self-update > thing is the first bit I disable. I simply don't want software that > updates itself from an SVN which can be accessed by virtually anybody. > If I were not as lazy as I am, I would also make sure that the sofware > is installed by another user account than the one used to run it; that's > just standard security practice. I find the version checks and > self-updates rather intrusive. > > Of course we don't want people running old software and ruining our > efforts, but I had thought that the simple version check on upload was > sufficient - along, perhaps, with an *optional* auto-update for those > who have the thing running in a sandbox. But you're talking as if > allowing the software to update itself would be some sort of basic > requirement for the client software...
Well, maybe apply these version checks on upload then, we certainly need them somewhere. For example when I've caused a bug that in many cases cause tiles to be completely squished and unusable it's clearly a bad thing for clients to continue using said code for weeks after the change. Sure, there needs to be a way to disable it, I add --subversion /bin/true to the command line when developing, but then I'm running more recent code than what's in the repo... However for the casual user I think self-update is something we really need, or people would never apply our fixes. And we definitely want to lock out old versions. -- Knut Arne Bjørndal aka Bob Kåre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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