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Since we're planning on coding these features anyway, let's do it right! I can't see that it would take a lot more time than creating separate update executables for each update. | Since we're planning on coding these features anyway, let's do it right! I can't see that it would take a lot more time than creating separate update executables for each update. | ||
'''Silver says:''' on NT-based OSes, you can at least rename files that are loaded as part of an application. This would allow you to rename existing, in use files, put down the new ones, all with Firefox running. Then restart it, and clean up the old ones in the background. | '''Silver says:''' on NT-based OSes, you can at least rename files that are loaded as part of an application. This would allow you to rename existing, in use files, put down the new ones, all with Firefox running. Then restart it, and clean up the old ones in the background. | ||
Revision as of 02:06, 26 April 2005
bsmedberg says: Why is the update a separate executable? What we would need to add to xpinstall is
- Binary-patch functionality
- Ability to do the xpinstall at shutdown/startup (not now)
Since we're planning on coding these features anyway, let's do it right! I can't see that it would take a lot more time than creating separate update executables for each update.
Silver says: on NT-based OSes, you can at least rename files that are loaded as part of an application. This would allow you to rename existing, in use files, put down the new ones, all with Firefox running. Then restart it, and clean up the old ones in the background.
Comments from bsmedberg: are we sure that the mozilla mirror network supports byte-range requests properly? Is there some other way to gate bandwidth?
Comments from bsmedberg: We should think carefully about how we handle these signatures. I presume we want mozilla updates to be signed *by mozilla.org*, not just signed in general. How do we identify which cert/certchains are appropriate?