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From: Ian McCall on 13 Feb 2010 03:05
Tech news sites all over are proclaiming the release of OpenOffice 3.2.
I fire up OpenOffice 3.1, and go to 'check for updates'. It checks
and...tells me I'm fully up to date.

What on earth is the point of writing this stuff if it doesn't actually
tell you the truth? Sighing, I then go to 'About...' to see if there's
a shortcut to the website. There is, sort of - a link to their Welcome
page. But is it clickable? Is it hell. Cut'n'paste'able? Nope.

Grrr.


Cheers,
Ian

From: Chris Ridd on 13 Feb 2010 03:39
On 2010-02-13 08:05:10 +0000, Ian McCall said:

> Tech news sites all over are proclaiming the release of OpenOffice 3.2.
> I fire up OpenOffice 3.1, and go to 'check for updates'. It checks
> and...tells me I'm fully up to date.
>
> What on earth is the point of writing this stuff if it doesn't actually
> tell you the truth? Sighing, I then go to 'About...' to see if there's
> a shortcut to the website. There is, sort of - a link to their Welcome
> page. But is it clickable? Is it hell. Cut'n'paste'able? Nope.
>
> Grrr.

It *did* get released yesterday, but however the app does its "am I up
to date" check is clearly broken/slow. VirtualBox has the same problem.

--
Chris

From: Ian McCall on 13 Feb 2010 03:55
On 2010-02-13 08:39:52 +0000, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said:

> It *did* get released yesterday, but however the app does its "am I up
> to date" check is clearly broken/slow. VirtualBox has the same problem.

It's quite common - OpenOffice is just one. I'm finding a fair number
of apps don't actually tell the truth about available updates. Just
seems bizarre to write that feature and then not test your new release
is picked up by it.


Cheers,
Ian

From: Chris Ridd on 13 Feb 2010 04:26
On 2010-02-13 08:55:27 +0000, Ian McCall said:

> On 2010-02-13 08:39:52 +0000, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said:
>
>> It *did* get released yesterday, but however the app does its "am I up
>> > to date" check is clearly broken/slow. VirtualBox has the same
>> problem.
>
> It's quite common - OpenOffice is just one. I'm finding a fair number
> of apps don't actually tell the truth about available updates. Just
> seems bizarre to write that feature and then not test your new release
> is picked up by it.

Whatever the Sparkle framework does on the Mac seems to work pretty well.

--
Chris

From: Ian McCall on 13 Feb 2010 04:55
On 2010-02-13 09:26:06 +0000, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said:

> Whatever the Sparkle framework does on the Mac seems to work pretty well.

Yes, it's my mark of quality for such things I have to say*. Anything
using Sparkle seems to get it right - the only hassles I've had have
been with alpha versions of Chax and, well, the alpha tag rather gives
away why and is totally understandable. Release versions have all been
fine.

Would love an actual Sparkle app that knew about Sparkle-based
self-updating apps on your system and allowed you to do them en-masse.


Cheers,
Ian



*well, since we don't have apt-get update anyway...

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