On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 03:04:38PM -0500, Nicholas Vettese wrote: > I am currently using the Windows version of Scribus, and I was > wondering if there will ever be an "Update" link in the Help section > to update the version of Scribus you are using. Since Linux is a > continual improvement alone, getting updates are easy. Just wondering > if there was a plan for the future.
Good idea. Please file a bug with severity "feature" requesting the feature. It should not actually be too hard to do with a Scribus plug-in that at least tells you that there's a new version. Since Qt has built-in HTTP support, it'd be a simple matter of GETting a file from scribus.net or using HEAD to check a timestamp. Scribus might even be able to download it for you and start the installer, but initially the plug-in should probably just tell your web browser to download the file. We could ship such a plug-in with Scribus pretty easily, and it wouldn't be too hard to make it cross platform (at least to make it alert the user to new versions on Mac OS X and Windows; Linux is less practical until/unless we can get static builds going). If I find a spare millon years I'll do it myself. Otherwise it might be a fun project for someone who wants to get involved in coding for Scribus, since it'll involve minimal work on Scribus its self - just a ScPlugin-derived plugin class and some Qt code. Once I'm back from holiday I'll be happy to help out anyone interested on IRC. -- Craig Ringer
