Re: automatic update tracker

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 14:52:53 Rene Rebe wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 April 2007 14:22:31 yokoy wrote:
> > 
> > hi,
> > 
> > what is the way the automatic update tracker works?
> > I wonder cause brlcad 7.10.0 ist stable since april the 9th, but the 
> > automatic 
> > update tracker is not informed about that.
> 
> It uses the C++ source located in source/UpdateList* to iterate over
> all the .desc files and check the upstream URL for matching updates.
> 
> Due to the many different version encodings, PHP download scripts
> or forbidden directory listings the Update tracker can not, or not reliable
> locate all files possible.
> 
> So we also lurk on freshmeat.net and co manually as well. If you
> notice update that you want in T2  either drop a note here or
> or provide a patch.
> 
> Updates to the Update tracker are also of course welcome, we also
> probably should rewrite it in Lua as well.

Due to your notification, brlcad was updated yesterday. Including
the updated License information I noticed accidently scrolling
over their page. 

Thanks - yours,

-- 
  René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
  http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name

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