[plt-scheme] Version Check

Jaime Vargas wrote:
> 
> On Apr 27, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Anton van Straaten wrote:
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>> Eli Barzilay wrote:
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>>> On Apr 27, Anton van Straaten wrote:
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>> "Users who need to" to according to who?  You have done nothing to  
>> demonstrate nor establish this need from the user's perspective.   
>> You're attempting to solve a problem that many of your users  clearly 
>> do not perceive.
> 
> 
> Humm. I will disagree, I recently got into PLT and use it in OSX, in  
> this platform most of the programs have an auto-update feature. I  
> search for this feature when I saw an announcement about 301.13, so I  
> said lets check out the latest version, and I was surprise when I  
> couln't find the auto-update feature. Who knew that it was buried in  a 
> preferences option.  

No-one is arguing that an auto-update feature shouldn't be available or 
easy to enable.  The discussion is purely about whether the user needs 
to give explicit, informed consent for checks to be performed.

Anton