Re: RFC: Update wizard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raphaël Enrici [mailto:blacknoz(at)club-internet(dot)fr]
> Sent: 21 November 2004 21:39
> To: Dave Page; Andreas Pflug
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] RFC: Update wizard
>
>
> What are you thinking about exactly ? A way to specify an external
> script/command to launch or something ? Under Linux and maybe
> others, I
> think that updaters generally do exactly the same thing, but
> generally
> less efficiently, as the native packaging systems. Example: I
> love the
> pear system for php but I consider that it clashes with the native
> packaging tools under Debian... By using pear system you get
> unpackaged
> files installed on your system.
> And what about things partly installed (example data files not up to
> date with binaries) which may break the app...
>
> I'd be for something advertising a new version but not more.
> Unless we
> have something really open and customisable to suits the needs of all
> OSes packagers.

Yeah, that's the downside. On some apps I've used on Windows, it's nice get have the app download a new version of itself, and spawn a new process to move the new version into place and run it. Makes it all seamless and very slick. Doesn't fit in well with Linux packaging schemes though does it :-(

Regards, Dave.