bittorrent in core? what frontend?

[Paul Howarth]

Sean wrote:
> On Mon, December 19, 2005 11:52 am, Paul Howarth said:
> 
> 
>>I've pushed an update to 4.2.2 earlier today. I'm not sure about
>>disabling the "updated version" check. On the one hand people should
>>only be updating the package using RPM, but on the other hand the alert
>>will let them know that a new version is available, and that might
>>prompt them to run "yum update" if they don't have automatic updates
>>turned on.
> 
> 
> Great.  I must have just upgraded a bit before your push.

Which version of bittorrent are you using? Looking at the code, it looks 
to me that the update-checking code is only enabled for Windows and OSX 
unless the DEBUG flag is set.

> As for the auto-update feature, the user already has utilities that notify
> them when an update is available; why a special update notice for this one
> little app?   Also, a naive user might not understand that they should
> wait for the update to appear via their normal update process.   Also, an
> admin might turn off the regular auto-updating for users and not know he
> has to do something special to shut off this one app.
> 
> All in all, there are a lot of reasons that having a separate update
> notification available for this app.

I now share the view that the new version check should be disabled. 
However, I've so far been unable to provoke the client into telling me 
about a new version, even though I've got an old one installed, so it's 
difficult to test any patch I make (which will certainly need testing 
since I'm not a python programmer).

Paul.