Hi Bill,
I am answering below.
73,
Yan.
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Yannick DEVOS - XV4Y
http://www.qscope.org/
http://xv4y.radioclub.asia/
Le 13 nov. 2014 à 07:37, Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com> a écrit :
> On 12/11/2014 23:51, Yannick DEVOS (XV4Y) wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
> Hi Yan,
>>
>> I am not a specialist about this questions, but this is my comment.
>> What you could do on OS X is at first run check if the KVASD is present (and
>> updated) and if not download it and install it (with the EULA dialog, etc).
>> The ClamXAV antivirus does this for its internal engine which is developed
>> by a different team than the GUI itself.
> I did consider such a solution for all platforms although it is probable
> that the application doesn't have permission to write the KVASD
> executable to the required location. The main reason that I didn't take
> this route and instead linked the KVASD install to the WSJT-X installer
> (more or less directly) is that it isolates the code that requires
> elevated permissions to the installer context.
ClamXAV for instance ask the administrator password, but it might be because
the antivirus engine has to work at system level...
>
> In general I think it is a potential major security violation for any
> application to download executable content from the Internet and such
> ability should not be granted to a user level application.
I quite agree with you from a general principle, however many applications like
FireFox or Google Chrome do their updates this way.
I don't tell you to silently do it like Chrome does it, because I find it very
annoying.
However, informing the user, and providing him a way to download the package in
one click and install it with just a further drag-&-drop seems responsible to
me.
If I were to do it for a software I wrote, that's the way I would do it, but
that does not mean that's the way you have to do it...
>>
>> 73,
>> Yan - XV4Y.
>> ---
>> http://www.qscope.org/
> 73
> Bill
> G4WJS.
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