Ricebug on 18/11/2016 at 16:42
Didn't know if I should ask this question here or somewhere else.
I just read a bunch of posts on the FM side, and inevitably, there's usually someone who can't load a mission. After a flurry of back-and-forths, it typically comes down to an outdated version of TafferPatcher or some other utility. So here's my question: Is it possible to have TP, TFix, or any other utility within the programmer's purview auto-update itself? Fire up Thief Gold, for example, and the player gets a message, XYZ has updates available!
I'm fairly ignorant of how such things work, but most software on my machine has that capability, annoying though sometimes it is. But I thought I'd throw it out there for the experts to cuss and discuss.
Yandros on 18/11/2016 at 17:34
That probably requires a web service hosted somewhere that can tell the app what the current version is, and a way of delivering the updated program. Right now TP and TFix are probably hosted on a variety of sites, so the hosting would have to be centralized wherever the web services are deployed. Now if all you wanted was an alert saying "Hey there's a new version out there, go download it or else don't complain when shit don't work" then just the web service hosted somewhere would be enough.
