Handling updates

[Dan Shafer]

Chipp Walters at Altuit has a really elegant solution to this problem. 
I'm sure he'll jump in when he visits the list next.


>> OK, another newbie question.  Once you install a program on
>> someone's local machine for win/linux/mac that uses mysql or
>> PG, do you typically notify them of patches to the engine or
>> expect end users to be smart enough to go out and get the
>> patches themselves?  It doesn't seem likely that most end
>> users would have any clue how to do this.  So if I have a
>> robust application that uses one of these databases, are
>> people required to patch, or since it's a local install can
>> you just toss a database file out there that will respond to
>> sql queries like an access database where it's essentially
>> just a file? (I don't suppose there's a hack to let access
>> databases run on
>> Mac/Linux???)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Oak



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