[dev] Up2Date

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting "Michael J. Pawlowsky" <mikejp at videotron.ca>:

> >How is that different than just doing a "cvs diff" command on them?
>  
> Basically the idea is that anyone could update horde. Including the priest of
> the guy that's setting up horde for free for his church!  :-)

Agreed.

> In the way that RedHat has their RHN. Or Microsoft and Windows Update, 
> Norton and LiveUpdate etc.

But the program we're talking about doesn't come with your OS, so it
isn't quite the same.  You have to install it to start with.
 
> I wouldn't publish updates for every CVS change. However definitely go
> through it on a regular basis and put some through.

Okay, I thought we were talking about keeping it in sync with CVS (RELENG
or HEAD).  The whole think changes if we are talking about occasional 
"releases".

> Also you are talking about *nix solutions that do not necessarily come
> installed on Win2K boxes.

Only one: CVS.  And it doesn't come as a standard part of most unix systems
either.  And it's hardly a unix solution.  But the point is, they will need
to install something, or perhaps more than one something. We can't be like
the bundled packages in Windows/MacOS/RedHat, because we're not the OS
vendor.  The idea is keep the install process easy, but we can't eliminate 
it.
 
> I know for a fact that their IT
> team could not handle it. Don;t even try to get them to compile anything!

I've installed it on dozens of machines without ever compiling anything.
This shouldn't be an issue.

> I agree that a cvs update is not complex... And that is how I also update my
> machine...

Please note I'm not saying use cvs update as a command line tool. I'm saying
lets script the cvs updates to make them even easier.

> Why do you think Linux became popular. Price for one perhaps. But once the
> installs became CLICK next...  it made a big difference.

Could be, but I still use the command line for most things (including updates).

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

Why get even? Get odd!