[JDEV] autoupdate

[Thomas Muldowney]

The only reason I can remember was to have on central place to look at,
but we quickly learned what a mess that is.  I would say I'm in favor of
people dealing with it themselves.

--temas


On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:00:24PM -0600, Joe Hildebrand wrote:
> In Exodus, we've implemented both the (relatively lightly documented)
> current way, as well as a simple HTTP HEAD.  The HEAD approach seems to work
> pretty well... Can someone remind me of the reasons why the more complex
> protocol is necessary, since autoupdate is so similar to the HTTP caching
> problem?
> 
> -- 
> Joe Hildebrand
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Saint-Andre [mailto:stpeter at jabber.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:09 PM
> > To: jdev at jabber.org
> > Subject: [JDEV] autoupdate
> > 
> > 
> > Actually I was just about to ask someone for a JEP on that -- 
> > we need a
> > real solution to the software update problem, not the current hacks.
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> > --
> > Peter Saint-Andre
> > Jabber Software Foundation
> > http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.php
> > 
> > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 michael at aurora.gen.nz wrote:
> > 
> > > > And no - we have no way to make the fix a mandatory 
> > release.  Are you
> > > > offering to fix update.yabber.org so that it actually works?
> > > 
> > > Opps, make that update.jabber.org that is broken...
> > > 
> > > Michael.
> > 
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