New updating method

How to

How to convert your copy of the OPML Editor to the new method of updating:

1. Download the following script to your computer.

http://tinyurl.com/2ymjvp

2. Launch the OPML Editor.

3. Choose Open from the File menu, select the file downloaded in step 1.

4. Click on OK to all confirmation prompts.

5. A window should open with a script called workspace.installer.

6. Click Run.

Next steps

Choose Update opml.root from the File menu. Click OK. You may get some new parts this way.

In general, when you want to update, that's how you do it.

Note that it's no longer necessary to update from the Community menu too, updates of both roots are done from the File menu command.

Why the change?

The change was made necessary because I shut down four of my seven servers on March 31. I had built out a lot of capacity because at one time, in 2004, I planned on starting a podcasting venture, and bought extra hardware, and actually deployed apps on it.

It took a few months to unwind the ball of twine and get everything consolidated onto three servers. In the process I made the updating code work with RSS instead of XML-RPC. Much lighter-weight and less expensive to operate, and more reliable. All-around a good thing, but it involves a bit of effort to make the change.

# Posted by Dave Winer on 4/3/07; 8:54:37 AM - --