Re: [libreoffice-users] automatic updates?

And why is that?

Did you ever stop to think about it?

Microsoft and Apple are sealed proprietary OSs.  A bunch of Microsoft
stuff got migrated to Apple when Bill Gates bought a substantial part of
Apple years ago.  As long as they only develop/test with the original
"core" release, they can shove it out safely.

It's been a long time since I looked at the build process for FireFox,
but, isn't it also a self contained exe?  Yes, it has supporting files,
but on Windows and MAC it doesn't rely on other things does it?

The .SO linking is a real kick to the groin for developers.  It's a
mindset you aren't going to change soon in Linux land, but, if you want
to have things which an be replaced without thinking they need to be
completely self contained.  Most computers have a gig or more of RAM
these days.  Even the bottom end computers are coming with 1TB disk
drives.  We need to shed this development model which allowed multiple
users to run in 128K because that simply isn't a requirement anymore.

On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 13:24 -0400, Paul W wrote:

> 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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