On 29.09.2011 22:22, Michael Thayer wrote: > Hello Felix and all, > > As an update to our discussion about how to reconcile distribution versions > of the Additions > with Oracle's, I have taken care of both of the points below. Any future 4.1 > releases will have > a modified version notifier on non-Oracle builds which advise the user that > if their > distribution/distributor no longer provides current versions of the Additions > they should remove > the distribution version and install ours. Distributors should feel free to > customise the message.
I think we need another way to show the user that an update is available since these popup notifications are usually truncated (depending on the notification daemon) after a fixed amount of characters and are only displayed for a short time. Maybe you could display a QSystemTrayIcon? > And we have also fixed the only problem we could find which would cause > problems when 4.1 > Additions were used with a 4.0 host - the Guest Execution functionality was > not working in this > case. The 3D ABI is compatible between 4.0 and 4.1, and we will try our best > not to keep it > compatible in future. So as of any future 4.1 or later releases it will be > safe for > distributions to supply the most recent version of the Additions for use with > any host version > as of 4.0. (Just in case there is any doubt, we will only be testing this > for Linux guests, > although chances are good that it will apply for other guests too.) That's great news. Thanks for your work on keeping the guest additions compatible. Regards, Felix _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
