Re: [orca-list] making Orca update automatically

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Sounds like a fun feature!  Go for it -- submit a patch and we'll take a 
look.

Looking forward to seeing a new contributor come on board,

Will

Scott Berry wrote:
> Hi there everyone,
>
> I'd like to throw this out for discussion.  I am thinking that it's time
> for Orca to have anautomatic update procedure  such as what you see in
> Jaws.  It would do the following:
>
> 1.  When you go in to the Orca preferences there would be an update
> button on the General Tab or create a new  update tab for this feature.
>
> 2.  When that button is invoked it would ask if you'd like to check for
> updates.
>
> 3.  If there is an update found it would have a radio button rather than
> a list view because then the newest Orca within a certain branch would
> be selected.  Also with in this you would have a combo box with the
> different branch numbers.  I am thinking for instance:  you'd have
> 2.24.2 and then if you go for 2.25 you'd have 2.25.4.  I am thinking of
> making it smart enough to check the ftp site and determine the newest
> version.
>
> 4.  It would say if your working under a new branch:  "Please be careful
> as this may break your current accessibility setup."
>
> 5.  It would retrieve the download and set it up automatically.  This
> particular version would befor a deb package but maybe there's a tool
> which I could incorporate to turn it in to an rpm.
>
> 6.  Then it would say:  "Your version of Orca has been successfully
> downloaded and installed.  Please wait a few minutes as I restart myself
> and get organized."
>
> I know i have a little humor but heck it's Linux why not have fun with
> it.  I'd like to know also if there would be people willing to
> contribute code to this and make it easy for those of us who are Linux
> gurus and newbies as well.  I'd also like to make it so there is full
> control of each version so say your an advanced user and you want a
> certain version you would be able to get that and say hit an Install
> button and she goes away and does her thing downloading and installing
> the version called for.  I('d have a lot of fun with this I think.
>
>
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