Hi Am Fri, 8 Oct 2010 00:18:19 +0700 schrieb Nguyen Vu Hung: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Michele Zarri <m.za...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 06/10/10 22:21, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 14:21 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 2010-10-06 2:06 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Yes there is... use the MSI system, which will take care of things li k > e >>>>> unpacking to the environments /tmp directory, launching the installer >>>>> after unpacking (like it does now), then - and here is the trickey pa r > t >>>>> I guess - detect a current installation, and offer to upgrade it, or t > o >>>>> install a parallel version. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Oh - and one thing that I'd really like to see is a simple 'incrementa l >>>> updater' that just downloads a 'patch' file and patches itself, like >>>> Firefox and Thunderbird and lots of other programs do now. >>>> >>>> >>> +10 >>> >>> --Jean >>> >>> >>> >>> >> +1 >> >> +1. > > And for Mac OS X, as it doesn't (?) have a package management system, > we can leave the update agent as it is.
There are various systems that take care of applying updates on Mac OS X but I don't know the name of the most popular one and if it has a license that allows it to use with LibO. However I know that when you use the underlying BSD to create pkg-packages for installation you can make update packages. While this would solve the automatic update problem partially it again would bring up discussions which is the right way to install Mac OS X applications. For the hardcore Mac user there is no other way than dragging and dropping the app into a folder he likes it to be and run it. However the switcher, most of the time coming from windows, is used to make a double click and either an installation routine occurs. If no installation routine occurs I've seen switcher use the app out of the diskimage all the time. They simple didn't copy the app into their application directory they left the dmg on their desktop/another folder, opened it every time they wanted to use the app and ejected it afterwards. I myself would prefer the drag and drop way and see if any of the licenses the automatic update mechanism used into apps like Bean, iTerm, MacTracker, VLC, Thunderbird is compatible with LGPL v3 and therefore the mechanism could be used in LibO. Eric -- ## de.OpenOffice.org - Office für MacOS X, Linux, Solaris & Windows ## Openoffice.org - ich steck mit drin! -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/