Add UI to the updater process

[kkozmic]

The problem is running updater takes a couple of seconds in my case.

During that time the main application is inaccessible, but since it's taking a while the users might want to relaunch it, thinking something has failed, and that it should have re-launched by now.

Having some sort of (other than the console) UI (A progress bar + some text saying "update in progress") would help.

[synhershko]

We might be able to remove the need for the external Updater entirely - would be a better solution

[kkozmic]

Agreed
On 27/08/2013 10:20 PM, "Itamar Syn-Hershko" [email protected]
wrote:

We might be able to remove the need for the external Updater entirely -
would be a better solution

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[robinwassen]

Any updates on this?

[synhershko]

I'm afraid I don't have enough time to work on this at the moment, PRs welcome

[absinghal]

We are facing a similar issue and I propose the following solution:

Instead of adding UI, we can add callbacks to which the calling application should hook and display UI. This works perfectly during the checking, preparing and applying phases. The calling application is shut down only during cold update, which is typically a small part of the overall update process.

Can submit a pull request if the idea seems OK.