> The point is that I certainly couldn't accept software coming in from
outside &
> being run without any sort of intervention; however, I'm quite happy to
manually
> download a new version, virus check it & place it in a secure local
filestore for
> people to update automatically, if they wish.
So you would just leave the feature disabled then. I would be more than
happy to let it update manually, anything the virus checker dosn't spot on
the fly during the update, it wont spot on a file scan either so that isn't
a problem. And for those people out there who don't use one, well they wont
find virii whatever method is used for update.
> Actually the main problem is that many users seem to manage to operate
without an
> unZIPping utility anywhere on their command path... this makes it hard to
write a
> procedure which will work for all users, if the update package is a .ZIP
file. So
> I'm probably going to have to unZIP the file & place the constituent files
in
> local file store anyway. Might as well run a couple of virus scans whilst
I'm at
> it...
So make it a self extractor, where is the problem in that? In fact if it is
going to self extract you could compress with rar instead of zip and
increase the compression a bit.
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James Smith
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