Well, my firefox for osx automatically updates itself like windows...
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Roland Hughes <[email protected] > wrote: > And the type of update you are asking for only works on the Windows > platform. > > Unix/Linux platforms have a massive design flaw. Decades ago, when we > had no memory, no disk, and no money, forcing everything to use shared > libraries rather than static link was a necessity. Now, with LO and OO > written mostly in Java, shared JAR files are forced upon the application > as well as a forced minimum Java version. > > When an update happens for a Linux platform, there are far too many > dependencies to have automatic updates. What happens is the package > maintainers for each distro are notified. They decide if it goes into > the updates which are automatically pushed out or in the next release of > the distro. In many cases, due to a change in Java version, or some > other package needing a backleveled shared JAR or library, the release > has to wait for the next major release of the distro. > > _If_ LO was a statically linked executable, it could be compiled and > released automatically for every platform because there would be no > dependencies torpedoing other applications from afar. > > Windows doesn't much use or care about Java. > > On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 12:03 -0400, Paul W wrote: > > > Sorry, I dont' get what you're saying. > > I just meant that when there's a new version available LO would notify > the > > user and give the user the option to or automatically download and > install > > any updates. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:13 AM, lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Paul W <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > > > Does LibreOffice automatically update itself? If not that's a > suggestion. > > > > > > When there are new versions of packages available which are installed, > > > they'll be updated during an update, unless you prevent updating > > > particular packages or when packages cannot be updated because of > > > unresolved dependencies. LO related packages aren't any different in > > > that, and they shouldn't be. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > html messages are obsolete > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > > > In case of problems unsubscribing, write to > > > [email protected] > > > Posting guidelines + more: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > > deleted > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Roland Hughes, President > Logikal Solutions > (630)-205-1593 > > http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com > http://www.infiniteexposure.net > > No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol > reserves. > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > In case of problems unsubscribing, write to > [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
