aMule Forum
English => Feature requests => Topic started by: ozsd on July 14, 2008, 01:08:51 PM
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Hi, I would like to request a new configure option to disable the code to check the latest amule version and the relative option in the preferences (that could be only greyed out). This would be useful to distributions, where the update process is usually managed by the package management of the distribution and not by amule itself. A similar function is for example used by other programs directly provided by distribution, e.g. Mozilla Firefox.
Thanks
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I'm against unnecessarily disabling code. The distros can always provide a patched version (as some of them used to do) to disable the feature if they want to.
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Not that I agree with the distros doing it either - the user should be ABLE to decide if he wants the application to notice (NOTE - NOT AUTOUPDATE) him that a new version is available of the software.
If Ubuntu (because I know this comes from ubuntu) feels the urge to prevent the user from having the option to do something, that's their business model. If they think that having the same version of the software for 2 or 3 years in their LTS release means they must actively PREVENT the user from KNOWING that their software is outdated, that's their business model. But I don't plan on doing ANYTHING to help them fuck the user up the ass.
Preventing binary auto-update, maybe it can be understood. Disabling the option to get an informative message about your software being outdated because the distro doesn't want to update it? That's just fucked up.
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I have never verified that: does the check for new versions only prints the availability of a new version or also propose to download it?
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It will add a log message telling the user about the result of the version check.
If the user has already the most recent version Your copy of aMule is up to date. is shown.
If there's a more recent version available the following lines are added to the log:
You are using an outdated version of aMule!
Your aMule version is a.b.C and the latest version is x.y.z
The latest version can always be found at http://www.amule.org
Given that most users won't check the log anyway and nobody will be disrupted by the message and additionally you can disable the check, I see no reason to provide a configure option.
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Most Linux users take amule from repository of their OS. And for OSX it should allow automatic update, not only version check. Anyway, given frequency of new versions, I would remove all this version-check to end discussion.