Re: Google Summer of Code 2013

[Ed Beroset <beroset () mindspring com>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> What is the user to do when informed that a new version exists?  
[...]
> (I.e., different OSes do this differently, and perhaps we should handle this differently on different OSes.)

VLC, which runs on Windows, Linux and OSX (I think) relies on separate package handlers under Linux, but offers the 
ability to download and install the new version under Windows and does that without running an annoying and wasteful 
"background service" that always runs and whose sole purpose is looking for updates.  

Ed
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