Timeline for Self-updating application - philosophy
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| S May 18, 2013 at 7:41 | history | edited | Kilian Foth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S May 18, 2013 at 7:41 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2011 at 11:54 | comment | added | MSalters | From experience: if you check for updates, don't have your program do so daily at midnight or 3PM. That seems reasonable, but you end DDOS'ing your own servers. Just add up to 3600 seconds of randomness; it's not that urgent. | |
| May 22, 2011 at 9:04 | comment | added | Dean Harding | @Mike S: that's not possible on Windows (cannot overwrite executable files that are running) and even on Linux it's not a particularly good idea (if you open another instance, you'll have one running the old code and one running the new code -- if there's any IPC happening, it's even worse) | |
| May 22, 2011 at 4:17 | answer | added | Joe R. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 20, 2011 at 16:44 | vote | accept | Shannon Davis | ||
| Apr 16, 2011 at 16:35 | comment | added | Mike S | My question is, why does #2 require the program to shut down and restart? If it's a security update then that's understandable, but a normal user closes and re-opens a program at least once a day if not more, so why not install it in the background, let the user run the program using the older version in memory, and then when they restart it use the new version that was installed. No fuss, no hassle. | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 13:18 | answer | added | sebastiangeiger | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 12:53 | answer | added | NoxArt | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 6:37 | answer | added | Mateen Ulhaq | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 6:11 | answer | added | Bacon Bits | timeline score: 31 | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 5:26 | answer | added | maaartinus | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 0:51 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Apr 15, 2011 at 20:08 | comment | added | Shannon Davis | So it isn't OK to ask Design/Architectural questions here? | |
| Apr 15, 2011 at 19:59 | answer | added | maple_shaft♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 15, 2011 at 19:56 | comment | added | John Batdorf | I'm not so sure it's philosophical, sounds like she's looking for a solution to me. | |
| Apr 15, 2011 at 19:52 | answer | added | John Batdorf | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 15, 2011 at 19:50 | history | asked | Shannon Davis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |