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Installation / Update Service for QKW / KDE and apps
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Jaroslaw Staniek
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started: 2003-07-22
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OOPL-only: Create Update Service using tdecore/KMD5 and bzip2 lib. This would be used to automatic
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updates for QKW and Kexi packages at the end-user side. Two options:
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- offline update from local archives
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- online update from the company ftp resources
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Benefits:
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- Updating would not longer require uninstal+install scheme.
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- Settings could be stored safer between updates.
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- User could be notified about new features and fixes installed.
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- User could add/remove components.
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- Everything using consistent gui on all platforms.
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- 'Batch/net installation' options for enterprises.
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- Smart 'Fix installation' option.
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- Possibility of collecting user settings and infos about installations. These can optionally transferred
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to developers with a bug report to help find a bug context.
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- This is a step for making KDE apps packages distribution-neutral on Linux.
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Notes:
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- The Service guis and backend should be build from two parts:
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- First: qt-only that is used to initialize the process and check the system, independently
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from existing KDE sybsystem.
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- Second: used when we already know we already have a working KDE subsystem. This part can use
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TDEConfig, KLibLoader, etc. to change the KDE settings.
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- To be able to do this, KDE needs get more guidelines for distributors of its binaries.
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- To be usable for commercial use, there should be one packaging system for KDE
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(maybe on top of tgz/rpm/deb/win32/mac?), "Meta Packaging".
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