actually the main problem probably is necessity to download full install
for every minor upgrade.
it would be nice if we could have whole 2.0 install and only an upgrade
file for 2.0.2, for example (this actually is quite common complaint).
there are utilities that do binary diff/patch (bdiff/patch :) ) - i
think there was something about mozilla using these for firefox updates,
but i can't find anything on it right now, so maybe that was some other
project.
there might be cases when patch would be very big (because a lot of code
changed between releases), but as far as i understand, nobody has tested
this yet.
Rex Dieter wrote:
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
Robert Volke wrote:
When OO version 2.0 does come out (fingers crossed - by the end of
July), will there be patches and updates released for it or are we
always going to have to uninstall the last version then install the
newest version????
As with any software, we constantly try to upgrade and make our
software better. There will be minor releases which might be labeled
2.0.1 and major releases labeled 2.1. You can look in the release
notes for each release to decide if it is something worth upgrading for.
I think what Robert meant was different. As it is now with the ooo-1.9
betas, say you have ooo-1.9.109 installed. Running setup for
ooo-1.9.113 installs *another* copy of openoffice, so you now have both
ooo-1.9.109 *and* ooo-1.9.109 instead of having ooo-1.9.113 upgrading
the currently installed ooo-1.9.109.
(Personally, it's no biggie for me, since we're using AD Group Policy
and I can manually specify that ooo-1.9.109 should be uninstalled prior
to installing ooo-1.9.113, but it'd be nice if I didn't have to do that)
-- Rex
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Rich
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