[Gnumed-devel] Re: Gnumed "check for updates"

[Jim Busser]

On 1-Mar-09, at 11:22 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:

> IMHO you should decide about the following issues:
>
>  1. How fast do you need an update to a new version?
>  2. Do you want either updates rolled out by a package manager (like
>     dpkg or rpm) or do you prefer an update mechanism inside GNUmed
>     itself?  (I'd strongly vote against two "competing" upgrade
>     mechanisms!)

Maybe it is not obvious, but some questions I am not asking purely  
(and sometimes not at all) for myself, but imagining if I were some  
other users.

Even so, thank you Andreas for the above, as well as for the  
additional helpful information in your last reply though I did not  
quote it all above.

I do agree that duplication is usually best avoided other than what  
downstream users might choose to do themselves.

I might only still think that when people might not be often checking  
their system update notifications, it can still be helpful if it is  
possible to easily (inside an application) query if there are newer  
versions.