On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Steve Borho <st...@borho.org> wrote:
> 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()
I just added this to the about dialog. On Windows it will look for a
newer release and offer a download link. Feel free to expand this
later into a periodic polling routine.
--
Steve Borho
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