Hi,

I have some questions about installer packages for Gears and version
checking/updating. We've developed an application that uses Gears to
offer some parts for offline usage.

The way to install Gears is to go to the website and clicking the
download button. This way of installing is not eagerly adopted by the
IT department. They want an installer package that can be installed on
one laptop and from there be pushed to the other laptops that need to
be installed.

Searching the group, I found a download link to an msi package:
http://dl.google.com/gears/0.3.24.0/gears-win32-opt.msi, which also
seems to work for the current version: 
http://dl.google.com/gears/0.5.33.0/gears-win32-opt.msi.
I find this a bit obscure, as I couldn't find a page where these links
are listed and/or documented. Is this something that will stick for
future versions?

Furthermore, Gears automatically checks for new versions on install
and on usage. Is it possible to turn this off? Do I need to build
Gears myself to turn this off? Where can I find the line(s) of code?

Gears version management is a bit unclear to me right now. The
subversion repository hosts a trunk version, but there are no tags for
versions released?

Regards,
Rens

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