Is there any app planned for updating the system ?
I seem to remember this being kicked around a couple of months back on the mailing list.
I’m not sure what the outcome was, probably a little too early to tell.
Perhaps head on over to the Glass Elevator site / mailing list - they might know more.
beosfrance wrote:
Is there any app planned for updating the system ?
There was a thread about this awhile ago here and the outcome was (from what I gathered) that there isn’t a plan for one. There plan is that they’ll develope it without bugs from the get-go.
I still don’t think that this is realistic.
It’s probably more of a case it’s too early to think up an updating system for something that hasn’t been finished.
The other issue, is when we (Haiku) do it, we want to do it right, first time.
I’m not a programmer, but it doesn’t seem like a huge project to have an installer log parsed with an application which checks any compatible web page providing versions, dates and links for the installed applications.
A site hosting applications like BeBits could have a special page which spits out query results and the app presents you with a list of programs which have had versions released since your last installation.
Then again, I’m still waiting for the economy to trickle down to me…
h_ank wrote:
The main work is in the design.
I'm not a programmer, but it doesn't seem like a huge project to have an installer log parsed with an application which checks any compatible web page providing versions, dates and links for the installed applications.
But I am talking about an updater for Haiku. Which needs to be done b/c no-one does it right the first time, or the second, or the third, etc. There are always bugs. People have made and designed it and there flaws (b/c we all have them) are in the design and implementation as well. To not have an updater is to shoot yourself in the foot.
I mean what will happen when the first bugs are found and people keep having to go to a web page to get an update again and again and… It’s going to piss them off it is. Fact of the matter is that every major operating system, especially those geared toward users has one.
When it comes to the package managment system, it to must have this in mind in its design from the beginning. Otherwise it’ll be one huge bugger to put on in later. Again, you shoot yourself in the foot.
When I talked to mphipps about related matters, he stated that there is already talk and, from what I gathered, design for a package managment system. Do you not think that people will be rather irritated if they have to uninstall a package (and all its dependancies) and reinstall everything to have this “feature.”
Seems to me, to not have one from the beginning or at least designing things so that one will fit in nice from the beginning will drive away users and irritate those that stay. Not to mention developers having to worry about backwards compatability very early on, etc.
All this equals one [b]huge]/b] headache if not done. That’s my 2 cents anyway. At least I find it logical.