This thread is really winding me up.
> No, because there is absolutely nothing controversial about any of
> those other options.
Retrieving version.txt is is NO way controversial. It's not logging into
your online banking, adding you to a mailing list or sharing your
documents over the internet. It's just downloading a totally harmless
text file!
If you don't like the way it behaves, please use the command line client
or examine/alter the source yourself instead of wasting Stephan's time
and filling the mailing list with this obsessive paranoia about getting
a text file.
> I retain that the polite thing to do is to ask me during installation.
Why? What's wrong with retrieving version.txt? You still haven't said
what you think is "controversial" about this. Adding an installer option
for this would be ridiculous. I'm betting that 99% of users don't care
if it checks for new versions (and if they did, it would be the dialog
popping up that annoys them - not the retrieval of a text file from a
remote server). Even if they did care - they would just turn it off or
block it at the firewall without whinging on a mailing list of hundreds
of users.
> If you don't like the status cache (even though it's obviously good
> for you), you can just uninstall TSVN and you're good.
The same goes for the check for updates feature. What's your point? Just
uninstall TSVN and use the command line client (for the sake of all of
us on this list).
I suggest that if you really are this paranoid, that you download the
source, inspect it and build your own exe, because there is NOTHING to
say that the binary exe you downloaded from tigris.org has got anything
at all to do with the (open) source. ;) And I hope to god you're using
an open source firewall otherwise all your arguments are null and void.
Nick...
Received on Thu Apr 13 16:05:35 2006