The autoupdater idea is an interesting one.  With the mac name now fixed to include the version of horae in it (ifeffit-1.2.8-Mac10.4_horae60_pkg.dmg), it would be easy to check using a cron job (still there on the mac, although there is a slicker way to do it as well now).  I can have the modified horae_update script go into /usr/local/bin and execute when the user runs it.  The script needs to be sudo'ed so it will have to be invoked manually.  A cron script is an interesting idea, but I suspect that problems will arise when the script suddenly starts using a connection on a notebook.  A better way to do it is to ask people to sign up for rss notification of an installer update via sourceforge (links are on http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_project.php?group_id=80919).  Updating the project news, or file releases will automatically trigger a RSS feed update.


Paul



On Feb 16, 2006, at 23:21 PM, Bruce Ravel wrote:

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 20:26, Paul Fons wrote:
Matt, I was wondering if it would be cool to add the horae version to  
the installer name using some predetermined format).  As it stands,  
it is hard to know how old each release is.  The windows installer  
selfupdates so this shouldn't be a problem, but as the horae_update  
script is at least for the moment broken, I am trying to release a  
new mac binary installer every time Bruce comes out with a new  
version (for people who don't want to bother installing a development  
environment to compile the latest horae version).

I also have no problem with whatever naming scheme you think is helpful for
the Mac.

As for the horae_update script -- I am not averse to your relying on it or a
similar concept.  I just don't want to continue trying to support it.  You
might, for instance, want to get something of that sort working well on the
Mac (perhaps downloading from cars rather than from SourceForge) and have the
Ifeffit installer give the user the option of making a cron job (or whatever
that's called on the Mac) out of the updater.

B

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