[Chandler-dev] Supporting an auto-update feature for the Desktop

[Mimi Yin]

On Mar 27, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Grant Baillie wrote:

> Of course, such a thing could only start happening in 0.7.6, and  
> also people should probably have some kind of opt-out (for privacy  
> reasons).
>
> Now that I have some idea of the workings of the build system and  
> various web servers, I think that it wouldn't take more than a  
> couple of days to get something basic working (a periodic or manual  
> check, followed by showing a simple dialog if something new is  
> available).
>
> I also have a couple of related (but somewhat different) proposals  
> in my queue for 1.0:
>
> <https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11448>
> <https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11737>

Hi Grant, I think we still want to do both of these.

The first bug is to add a "Upgrade..." menu item: We want a way for  
users to manually start the Upgrade progress (if they don't respond  
to the ping from us right away).

Someone recently wrote into the users list asking how they should go  
about upgrading. This is a way for users to discover that by themselves.

The 2nd bug is to just simplify the reload dialog.