[Ifeffit] Mac Installer

[Paul Fons]

  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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