6 Sep 2009 13:41
0launch 0.42
Thomas Leonard <talex5 <at> gmail.com>
2009-09-06 11:41:12 GMT
2009-09-06 11:41:12 GMT
A new release of Zero Install (0.42) is now available: http://0install.net/injector.html (source only at the moment; a Debian package has been uploaded to unstable and the RPMs are building) New features - Connect to a key-server to look up trust hints. By default, this is a service hosted on Google AppEngine, at http://keylookup.appspot.com/ Before, we used a built-in database, which couldn't be updated easily. The new system also allows us to use a much larger source of information; in particular the server can tell you if a package is signed by a member of the Debian project. Hopefully, this can be expanded in future to include packagers from Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. - Allow multiple versions of each distribution package (Anders F Bjorklund). On RPM-based systems, 32-bit and 64-bit versions of a package may have the same package name, so store a list of (version, arch) pairs for each name. Changes - Always run the built-in copy of the GUI. Originally, the GUI was a separate program that 0launch downloaded when needed. Later, a copy of the GUI was bundled to improve the experience for first-time use, but updates were downloaded. In recent years, the only purpose of this has been to add new GPG keys to the hints database. Having the GUI as a separate program added unnecessary complexity, made it harder to(Continue reading)
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