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Morgul:
Good idea, however I have no clue how to do it. Mind looking up some programming references, or even some articles that explain the concept of how it's done? Don't worry about understanding most of it; I'm sure we'll be able to figure it out.

--Chris

Caenus:
It shouldn't be too hard to implement once we figure out the steps to take.

PhinnFort:
I have no real programming experience, but you would probably have to let the game's updater know which files are updated in each release. And then the game checks its version against the server, and if it's too old, it quits, and launches another program, which just updates what is needed.
And you must also remember that it should only update itself, not any of it's depencies, or it will probably not get into many distros (like Gentoo have a policy of not including any "auto-packages", which messes with other applications/libraries). But if you're only gonna distribute statically linked binaries, that won't be a problem, of course.

You could look into how PlaneShift does this, they have an (excellent?) updating system.
http://www.planeshift.it/

-PhinnFort

Oceanus:
I suggest automatically updating from an FTP

PhinnFort:
rsync?

-PhinnFort

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