On 12.01.2010 05:26, Steve Borho wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Steve Borho <st...@borho.org> wrote: >> 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.
Very odd to add such a whole new feature to the stable branch. Please at least add a config item so people who don't want this periodic polling silliness can turn it off. Quite off subject, once again, BTW. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list Tortoisehg-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss