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Originally Posted by spudje
If taking things from AOS4 is an option, I think I like to AppDir concept and the update support. Would be call to bring that over to AOS3.
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The APPDIR: concept works well for AmigaOS4 because the dos.library component was rewritten from the ground up and then some. This was a major accomplishment and one of the many benefits it brought with it was that for the first time in more than 30 years extensions could be added within the existing architecture, instead of getting stacked onto it. We are, unfortunately, a very long way away from dos.library being in a state fit to allow for such changes
AmigaOS4 has an online update server which, however, hinges on the availability of a TCP/IP stack that's integrated into it, and robust drivers which don't hang, crash or cause other kinds of mischief. Sadly, we do have our share of problems with network device drivers and their hardware. Unlike the AmigaOS4 solution, making your Amiga access the Internet is not quite so straightforward for AmigaOS 3.x. You might say that this is not such a big deal, but the thing is, we ought to do better than is possible today. Good enough here is not really good enough when the update server should be the main beneficiary of the networking capabilities. There is still work to be done here.