Silent Updates and Services

[cullenr2]

Hi

Playing with the trial for an afternoon now, and I have to say its like a breath of fresh air compared to other stuff out there (like BITS).

but a question.

I have an application that runs as a service and I really need a silent update that just gets scheduled at reqular intervals and just works. No human intervention. I've got your Wybuild update program working with it and as long as you stop the service first it works fine.

I'm thinking of modifying the open source version and making an application specific version to handle the service and also have no GUI so that it can be spawned off by the service.

Do you think I'm being practical? Will still be using the WyBuild app to build the update files

How close is the Open Source version of WyUpdate to the one that is generated by the WyBuild version? Will I be missing anything?

Thanks for help

[Wyatt]

I have an application that runs as a service and I really need a silent update that just gets scheduled at reqular intervals and just works. No human intervention. I've got your Wybuild update program working with it and as long as you stop the service first it works fine.

I'm thinking of modifying the open source version and making an application specific version to handle the service and also have no GUI so that it can be spawned off by the service.

Do you think I'm being practical? Will still be using the WyBuild app to build the update files

Well, we will be adding silent updates in the future (several months from now). But we don't plan on changing wyUpdate to a service.

It seems practical enough. Let me know if you hit any walls.

Also, if you want to contribute your code I can make it a part of the official wyUpdate. Of course, you're not under any obligation to do that if you don't want to.

How close is the Open Source version of WyUpdate to the one that is generated by the WyBuild version? Will I be missing anything?

The source version of wyUpdate and the compiled version included with wyBuild are nearly identical. The only difference is that the version of wyUpdate that comes with wyBuild is code-signed.