Edmund Wong wrote:
Hi All,
I hope all is well with everyone.
I've been spending a lot of time working on the update system. When I
started this project some time ago, I had just wanted to use the
old system and update (pun not intended)it. Gave up that idea and went
for something else.
Now fast forward a few years to 2020 after working on this on-and-off.
With the release process still being half-manually generated (though
the process has gotten a bit faster), I figured I'd tackle this update
issue once and for all.
I had the intention of setting up the new system such that all versions
(2.0 to 2.53.5.1 etc) can update properly. After getting a simple
working prototype running, I realized that it's no longer possible to
even update anything <= 2.23.
To be honest, I always thought (probably just assumed) that the main
problem with updating from older versions was that the Mozilla server
they were hard-coded to check for updates ceased to exist (or at least
stopped hosting SeaMonkey updates). So you were having to set up a new
server to host updates, but even then older versions wouldn't know about
it so wouldn't pick up any updates. I hadn't realised there was any
possibility that new infrastructure might eventually enable those older
versions to update as well.
There's bound to come a point, though, where an old version is just too
old to be able to support updating automatically!
--
Mark.
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