Hi,
I'm currently checking out what's available to add an
auto-update feature à la Yahoo/MSN to our Windows applications written
in VB.
Those that I checked so far require generating a list of files along
with a copy (full, or just a patched version) of each file, upload the
stuff to a www server, and have the client app download the list of
files to check whether it needs such and such patch.
To make it easier for developers, I was thinking that the actual work
of generating the list and patches could be done by a PHP script
directly.
Does someone know of such a beast, ie. go through the list of files in
the directory, generates a hash for each to give it a unique ID, build
a patched version of each file, build an INI file, and let the client
apps handle things from there?
Thank you for any tip
Fred.
I'm currently checking out what's available to add an
auto-update feature à la Yahoo/MSN to our Windows applications written
in VB.
Those that I checked so far require generating a list of files along
with a copy (full, or just a patched version) of each file, upload the
stuff to a www server, and have the client app download the list of
files to check whether it needs such and such patch.
To make it easier for developers, I was thinking that the actual work
of generating the list and patches could be done by a PHP script
directly.
Does someone know of such a beast, ie. go through the list of files in
the directory, generates a hash for each to give it a unique ID, build
a patched version of each file, build an INI file, and let the client
apps handle things from there?
Thank you for any tip
Fred.