How do you handle an engine update for your app?

[Trevor DeVore]

On Dec 1, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> But what do you do, if you want to exchange your splash stack it self?
> What are your approaches to organise this issue?

The current approach I use on Windows is to launch a VBScript and then  
quit the main application. The VBScript waits for the application to  
quit and then copies over the new install files (including the new  
executable) and then launches the new exe.

On OS X you can update your entire application on disk while still  
running so I just wrote a little command line program that the updater  
calls right before quitting. The command line program just relaunches  
the app after a few seconds. If I was better at shell scripts I would  
write one that watched for the application to quit and then relaunch  
but I haven't gotten around to that yet.

If you need code examples I can point you at the files to look at in  
the GLX Application Framework.

Regards,

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