Re: [libreoffice-users] automatic updates?

Well, my firefox for osx automatically updates itself like windows...



On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Roland Hughes <roland@logikalsolutions.com
> wrote:

> And the type of update you are asking for only works on the Windows
> platform.
>
> Unix/Linux platforms have a massive design flaw.  Decades ago, when we
> had no memory, no disk, and no money, forcing everything to use shared
> libraries rather than static link was a necessity.  Now, with LO and OO
> written mostly in Java, shared JAR files are forced upon the application
> as well as a forced minimum Java version.
>
> When an update happens for a Linux platform, there are far too many
> dependencies to have automatic updates.  What happens is the package
> maintainers for each distro are notified.  They decide if it goes into
> the updates which are automatically pushed out or in the next release of
> the distro.  In many cases, due to a change in Java version, or some
> other package needing a backleveled shared JAR or library, the release
> has to wait for the next major release of the distro.
>
> _If_ LO was a statically linked executable, it could be compiled and
> released automatically for every platform because there would be no
> dependencies torpedoing other applications from afar.
>
> Windows doesn't much use or care about Java.
>
> On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 12:03 -0400, Paul W wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I dont' get what you're saying.
> > I just meant that when there's a new version available LO would notify
> the
> > user and give the user the option to or automatically download and
> install
> > any updates.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:13 AM, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Paul W <pawitko@gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Does LibreOffice automatically update itself? If not that's a
> suggestion.
> > > When there are new versions of packages available which are installed,
> > > they'll be updated during an update, unless you prevent updating
> > > particular packages or when packages cannot be updated because of
> > > unresolved dependencies.  LO related packages aren't any different in
> > > that, and they shouldn't be.
> > >
> > >
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