I just ran across the link to this project in a post to the developer forums at palm (I don't read those too often). I have a page up on my site describing how to do pretty much this same thing using some different existing tools:
Your app seems much better suited to the download and install steps than LoBrowz. We've started up a Yahoo group to try to come up with an integrated catalog and online installer utility for the Palm:
I'd certainly be interested to work together on one better product. It should be noted though that SoftwareUpdate has some requirements that are absolutely necessary, since it is used as part of our production system at Kiala. Its main purpose is to have its database created by some other application (in our case it is a restore app or our main software during synchronization). It is then triggered to download everything in its software database and startup the command argument. So far, I see no problem integrating it with your solution. The most important thing for us is that it can run with absolutely no user interaction. But I guess this is not a problem either.
Anyway, for starters, feel free to use any of the code. There are some handy classes that do the dirty work of downloading, installing and starting the software.
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I just ran across the link to this project in a post to the developer forums at palm (I don't read those too often). I have a page up on my site describing how to do pretty much this same thing using some different existing tools:
http://www.unrooted.net/hacking/palm/online-repository.html
Your app seems much better suited to the download and install steps than LoBrowz. We've started up a Yahoo group to try to come up with an integrated catalog and online installer utility for the Palm:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openpalmenv/
It looks like we could all work together to get this done, please join up if you're interested. We're really looking for extra help. -- Rev
I'd certainly be interested to work together on one better product. It should be noted though that SoftwareUpdate has some requirements that are absolutely necessary, since it is used as part of our production system at Kiala. Its main purpose is to have its database created by some other application (in our case it is a restore app or our main software during synchronization). It is then triggered to download everything in its software database and startup the command argument. So far, I see no problem integrating it with your solution. The most important thing for us is that it can run with absolutely no user interaction. But I guess this is not a problem either.
Anyway, for starters, feel free to use any of the code. There are some handy classes that do the dirty work of downloading, installing and starting the software.