[Tilesathome] Better update mechanism

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Matthias Julius wrote:
> What is much more likely is that users are tampering with either
> version.txt or some source files.

Is there some kind of moral obligation to use the newest client code and 
to not "tamper" with the code? Why not DRM it outright and distribute 
only compiled binaries if that's what you want ;-)

Honestly, whenever I run the client nowadays, which doesn't happen often 
and mostly only for debugging, all that auto-version-check-self-update 
thing is the first bit I disable. I simply don't want software that 
updates itself from an SVN which can be accessed by virtually anybody. 
If I were not as lazy as I am, I would also make sure that the sofware 
is installed by another user account than the one used to run it; that's 
just standard security practice. I find the version checks and 
self-updates rather intrusive.

Of course we don't want people running old software and ruining our 
efforts, but I had thought that the simple version check on upload was 
sufficient - along, perhaps, with an *optional* auto-update for those 
who have the thing running in a sandbox. But you're talking as if 
allowing the software to update itself would be some sort of basic 
requirement for the client software...

Bye
Frederik

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