Recently we have been toying with the idea of building in Auto-update into Touchstone. Along with 'Anon Usage Stats' these two features have given us some concern as to possible miss-trust of our intentions.
This little note at 'Abandon the web' which links to Tim Bray's post about his IM software eases my mind a little about the Auto-update feature at the very least. Here is the quote they used.
This little note at 'Abandon the web' which links to Tim Bray's post about his IM software eases my mind a little about the Auto-update feature at the very least. Here is the quote they used.
Tim Bray: "There are two kinds of software: the kind that offers to update itself when appropriate, and the kind that's broken." Ideally, once users select a trade-off between features and code maturity (the range is from "bleeding edge beta" to "proven and stable"), the software is then updated automatically. An option to easily revert to a previous version should be provided if feasible.