Re: [Gambas-user] Feature suggestion: GAMBAS optional runtime auto-update

2014-08-25 Thread Julio Sanchez
Alexie: Does anybody has written a Gambas project, which can auto-update itself from a website (e.g. download gz/tar or git/svn) and restart itself? What I've done is a class that reads information from a web page on the internet. This website contains information about the program version and

Re: [Gambas-user] Feature suggestion: GAMBAS optional runtime auto-update

2014-08-24 Thread Kevin Fishburne
On 08/23/2014 09:22 AM, Willy Raets wrote: On vr, 2014-08-22 at 19:51 -0400, Kevin Fishburne wrote: In the interest of accessibility to a stable version of the GAMBAS runtime without requiring users to add a PPA or drop to the command line, I think it may be useful to add an auto-update

Re: [Gambas-user] Feature suggestion: GAMBAS optional runtime auto-update

2014-08-24 Thread Willy Raets
On zo, 2014-08-24 at 15:12 -0400, Kevin Fishburne wrote: On 08/23/2014 09:22 AM, Willy Raets wrote: On vr, 2014-08-22 at 19:51 -0400, Kevin Fishburne wrote: In the interest of accessibility to a stable version of the GAMBAS runtime without requiring users to add a PPA or drop to the command

Re: [Gambas-user] Feature suggestion: GAMBAS optional runtime auto-update

2014-08-24 Thread Alexie
To jump in the auto-update, but now from application side ... Does anybody has written a Gambas project, which can auto-update itself from a website (e.g. download gz/tar or git/svn) and restart itself? 2014-08-24 22:36 GMT+02:00 Willy Raets wi...@earthshipbelgium.be: On zo, 2014-08-24 at

Re: [Gambas-user] Feature suggestion: GAMBAS optional runtime auto-update

2014-08-23 Thread Willy Raets
On vr, 2014-08-22 at 19:51 -0400, Kevin Fishburne wrote: In the interest of accessibility to a stable version of the GAMBAS runtime without requiring users to add a PPA or drop to the command line, I think it may be useful to add an auto-update feature or equivalent. Currently users have

[Gambas-user] Feature suggestion: GAMBAS optional runtime auto-update

2014-08-22 Thread Kevin Fishburne
In the interest of accessibility to a stable version of the GAMBAS runtime without requiring users to add a PPA or drop to the command line, I think it may be useful to add an auto-update feature or equivalent. Currently users have three ways to install GAMBAS: (1) Install from their distro's