[Tilesathome] Self-updating client while running?

[Florian Lohoff]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 04:18:12PM +0200, Marc Schütz wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2008 16:07 schrieb Stefan Neufeind:
> > Hi,
> >
> > just noticed this:
> >
> > [#5 100% captionless] Updating the Client
> >
> > Does the client now self-update even while running?
> >
> 
> Yes, since quite some time already. It even restarts itself if necessary.

Sometimes this is a little dangerous - i had it a couple of times that
this caused the client to die because there were local changes and the
svn changes failed to integrate which caused bogus >>>> and <<<<
markers to be inserted into perl scripts which obviously caused them to
fail on restart.

So an update would be okay if the tree is unmodified :)

Flo
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