On 07/12/13 05:37 PM, Robert Strong wrote: > On 7/12/2013 1:12 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Gervase Markham <g...@mozilla.org> >> wrote: >>> We keep hitting cases where we would like Firefoxes in the field to have >>> some data updated using a process which is much lighter in expended >>> effort than shipping a security release. >> Would such an update increment the version number? I suspect you'd >> want to be able to easily determine if an update has been applied, and >> having to distinguish e.g. "Firefox 30 without update 1" vs. "Firefox >> 30 with update 1" could be annoying (and makes me think of Windows >> service packs). >> >> Nick > It wouldn't update all of the places where version numbers are stored > today since that would break incremental updates but there is no reason > that the places in the UI couldn't read in this information and show it > in the UI and thereby avoid breaking incremental updates. >
Updating any of the things in the original would break incremental updates as things stand now. We could figure out a way around it (eg, forcing complete updates for those files), but it's something that we should work out up front. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
