On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Yuki KODAMA <endflow....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 07:17, Mads Kiilerich <m...@kiilerich.com> wrote:
>> Yuki KODAMA wrote, On 01/11/2010 07:00 PM:
>>>>
>>>> How did you intend for the update checker to operate?  I thought about
>>>> it a bit over the weekend, and thought that it would be best
>>>> integrated into the about dialog.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think so.  It's appropriate implementation.
>>> However most users don't open About dialog frequently with the
>>> exception of users who wanted to check TortoiseHg's update.
>>>
>>> So I have one idea: Update checker is launched when the user runs
>>> any hgtk command at intervals of 1 week (configurable).
>>> For the user feels it annoying, it should be have checkbox option
>>> to disable update check feature.  TortoiseHg setting dialog will have
>>> the option to set the interval of update check.
>>>
>>
>> For Fedora and other distributions with their own update system - and no
>> other equally simple way to get an update - it is important that such
>> functionality can be disabled by default - for example with a setting in
>> util/config.py.
>
> Good point.  I thought about how Update Checker should behave at last night.
> I'll turn on this feature on only Windows in default.  Thanks Mads.

I spoke with Jesper about this on IRC.  He is ok with hosting a small
text file on our static web page as I described.  He says this should
work:

urllib2.urlopen('http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/currentversion.txt').read()

--
Steve Borho

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