On 16 September 2014 10:55, Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just a thought - but wouldn't be better spend time to enlighten > Gnome/Firefox developers how to write applications in a way the could be > upgraded runtime So, it's not just the application, it's every application and D-Bus service the application uses. Even glibc opens files-as-resources at runtime. The much bigger issues is if you're using a D-Bus service like most applications seem to do (and most use quite a few system and session, directly and indirectly) then you've also got to co-ordinate and handle changing D-Bus API (which typically isn't versioned). This means you've got to restart the system DBus service at the right time in the on-line update, which means co-ordinating with any other open sessions on the system. Most desktop apps don't just sit in islands on their own. It's probably okay to live-update powertop on a single-user system when it's not being run, but anything much more integrated than that just isn't going to work very well. Richard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
