SRC680_m163 and online update notification
The milestone SRC680_m163 integrated child workspace onlineupdate1. The specification of online
update is available at
specs website.
In short, it works as follows: if your
program/versionrc file contains non-empty value
of
UpdateURL variable, the menu item Help -> Check for Updates... is shown. If you
click on it, the dialog checking the URL contained in
UpdateURL variable is
shown. After that there are two (three in fact) possibilities:
- there is no update - if the URL contains "no" as the only text, the message box with "No new
update is available" is shown
- some update is available - the dialog where you can open the web browser is opened and you can
download the update
- nothing happens - if the answer from the
UpdateURL is not valid according to
specification
I have implemented it as a proof of concept into my builds. From Build-2 of SRC680_m163 on, I'll
apply the
patch
adding the value for
UpdateURL (
http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680/update.php
will be used as its value). You can even try it yourself on your own build or in my Build-1 if you
simply put this URL as the value of
UpdateURL in your
file
program/versionrc.
The
update.php script is
very simple PHP
script. It contains both variants (no - update is not available and yes - update is available at
some URL).
Sun builds will use
http://update.services.openoffice.org/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
as the URL, but it is not yet ready as you can check by specifying some fake
values for all submitted data
here.
Who will provide final
update.php that could be used for my builds instead of this fake
one? ;-)