On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <adr...@cadifra.com> wrote:
> 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.
It does no periodic polling. It only checks when you run the about dialog.
--
Steve Borho
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