Ioquake3 Gets A Cross-Platform Auto-Updater

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ioquake3 Gets A Cross-Platform Auto-Updater

It will now be easier for games making use of the open-source ioquake3 game engine to remain up-to-date thanks to a cross-platform, auto-updater written by Ryan "Icculus" Gordon...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ioquake3-Auto-Updater

[PieterDeBruijn]

Could this also be used in other projects, like LibreOffice?

[PieterDeBruijn]

Could this updater also be used in other projects. I'n especially thinking of LibreOffice.

[quikee]

Could this updater also be used in other projects. I'n especially thinking of LibreOffice.

We now have an auto-updater in LibreOffice [1], just not in a release yet.

[1] https://mmohrhard.wordpress.com/2017...office-builds/

[LEW21]

Meh. That's a job for package managers, not for the software. If each Linux app had its own autoupdater, Linux would be unusable.

Hopefully Flatpak guys will solve this for flatpak too.

[quikee]

Hopefully Flatpak guys will solve this for flatpak too.

That's solved for flatpak already...

[tildearrow]

ioqauek3

[Niarbeht]

ioqauek3

Best game.

[microcode]

Meh. That's a job for package managers, not for the software. If each Linux app had its own autoupdater, Linux would be unusable.

Hopefully Flatpak guys will solve this for flatpak too.

I think this is for other platforms. Ioquake3 updates are already self-contained on GNU and BSD.

[cj.wijtmans]

so if you have 5 users on your computer you have the same blobs 5 times. nice, really efficient.