2014-04-30 15:09 GMT+02:00 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <orwittm...@googlemail.com >:
> Hi, > > > On 30.04.2014 15:00, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 01:48:38PM +0200, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> >>> On 4/30/14 1:42 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >>> >>>> A User on en-Forum has posted this: >>>> ------------ >>>> After receiving notification of the availability of Open Office 4.1.0 >>>> >>> >> Where did he get the notification? The update mechanism supported by the >> application itself hasn't been activated, AFAIK. >> >> > I also have this question, because the update notifications for OpenOffice > instances 3.2.0, ... 4.0.1 had been activated a couple of minutes ago. > Thus, this user got another one. May be it was a notification from > SourceForge. While you download a program from SourceForge you can leave your email to get updates for that specific program. It's called 'keep me updated', and you can see that at the bottom of all projects' pages. Only if you subscribed to that service you might get an email from SourceForge when a new release is made available. Actually we just made 4.1 the new default, so people might have get that email now. Roberto > > > This is only entry on the thread at >>>> https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=69463 >>>> >>> >>> I agree that this is confusing and we have to improve this. We should >>> try to avoid update notifications for older systems but it's not so easy. >>> >> >> Well, the update feed has a way to tell the application architecture >> with inst:arch, so that <inst:arch>X86_64</inst:arch> for MacOSX will be >> the same as removing the whole MacOSX entry, because all previous >> MacOSX installations are x86; this will of course disable all >> notifications for MacOSX. Another alternative is to create a special >> page for MacOSX users and add it inst:update, so that user are not >> directed to the download page, but this special page explaining the >> situation, because >> >> > Damn. > Ariel, you are right. > I have overseen this in my recent activation of the update notification. > Thus, installed Mac OS X OpenOffice instance will not get an update > notification about 4.1.0. > > Best regards, Oliver. > > > > It is documented in the release notes >>> >> >> but we all know no one reads them, the proof is >> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119006 for the " Restore >> windows problem on Mac OS X" >> >> Another broken thing in MacOSX are C++ extensions, I have seen any >> mention of this in the release notes. >> >> >> Regards >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
