[Interest] Relaunch to Install

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interest-bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Interest] Relaunch to Install
> 
> Many applications have this functionality now, but a good example is the
> Spotify client.
> 
> The app discovers there is a new version available, downloads it in the
> background then prompts the user to restart to get the new version. When
> the user quits the new version is installed (or the installed version is patched)
> then the application is restarted, all without further user interaction.  In fact,
> the user really doesn't even have to do anything the app would automatically
> update on every exit if the user was never notified.
> 
> We have a cross-platform Qt 5.3 application and our lean startup business
> model requires us to push application updates very often so I'd really like to
> find a method that works cross platform with as little platform specific code
> as possible.

You might have a look at KDUpdater : http://docs.kdab.com/kdtools/2.2.2/kdupdater_updateclientarch.html

Regards

Kai