[sldev] Packaging the viewer for Linux distributions

[Robin Cornelius]

On 10/9/07, Argent Stonecutter <secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09-Oct-2007, at 09:19, Matthew Wiggins wrote:
> > As you've rightly pointed out, there is a significant amount of non-
> > changing data between releases so we should be able to cut the size
> > of updates by a large amount. As Bushing Spatula has found on that
> > VVR-603, getting to a 12MB delta is easily achievable. The main
> > challenge is producing a system that works on all three platforms
> > in a pleasing way for the user, and plays nicely with our
> > versioning process.
>
> You could use rsync. :)
>
> Actually, only half :).
>
> It might work.
>

Seems like a pretty good idea, librsync can be wrapped up nicely (if
required) and it should provide a pretty efficient method of update.
Its cross platform and a standard technology.

My only concern is that there must be a way of disabling it or
perhapses running a custom script etc so if people are following
nicholaz patch sets they don't suddenly get updated to a linden
original etc. Although the update detector currently dosn't do this.
But it may be nice if it could be redirected so that people running
3rd party builds can have there own update repository. It would save
my upload bandwith.

Robin