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I don't mind building and uploading the Aeon Auriga theme regularly if you could integrate it into the updater.
All it needs to be done is unzip it to the themes directory and overwrite the old files.
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Since it's open-source, I believe I'm going to make this cross-platform.
What's the inside like anyways? *peeks..*
I'm not sure if I should just convert the current capability to a cross-platform able application or if I should make two separate applications.
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Feature suggestions:
Show currently installed revision and currently downloading revision for duration of entire update process. Currently the new revision number flashes up for a split second here.
Download to install later. Often i will kick of the updater when im doing maintenance tasks like updating and cleaning the library. I dont want the updater messing with the live version when these important tasks are happening but if it could grab the copy and detect that you have the latst copy cached ready on a subsequent run that would be a real time saver. This could be complimented with a option like "Cache only if XBMC is currently running"
Cache xx last versions to allow for roll back
Local rss feed showing a diff of changes from last installed version to newly installed version
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Have a separate "Event Log" (or log to the Windows Event Log) so that I can see only basic stuff...
Date/Time started
If an update was available, which update
Time it took to DL
Time took to install
Date/Time ended and app quit
logs currently are separate files/days, not easy just to open a single fine and see the past few days stats.
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A while back there was some talk of diff based updates. Has this been proven viable in theory at least?
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Possible, sure - but why bother? It would need to scan the SVN, find new files and then download them. If using broadband it only takes a few minutes to DL the entire package anyway. If someone cannot wait an extra 1 or 2 minutes then they really don't need to update. Plus, most people don't NEED to update - you know what I mean... we do it to help test/debug. Most updates don't have new features that will make a huge impact to normal usage.
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