PBB Updater Updated

So, I have placed v1.1.7 of the PBB Updater on the site now. It has been fairly stable the last week or so and provides all of the recent fixes for the site changes. It no longer uses the file date/time stamp to determine if a file has been updated - but instead a checksum value for the file. If the file changes, the checksum will be different and it shows up as updated. Additionally, the updater now displays a status screen to let you see what it is doing while it is doing it.

And finally, the method by which it tracks what resources are available at StillTruth and what resources you have is now different. Site level changes may now happen and it will not break the updater - as that change will now be made to the resource listing on the server and downloaded each day (that you run updater) to your computer so it is always up-to-date.

Thanks to these changes there will be some other updates coming in the future. Such as support for providing the timeline files and other types of Libronix resource files. And hopefully, the updater will be able to provide you a list of resources on your computer that may be stale and no longer provided due to file updates (such as 14 volume works being combined into a single work).

That said, it has been in limited release. You may experience some bugs that I have not come across yet. If so, please leave a comment here and I will try to address it quickly. I hope that this resolves some of the irritations that have plagued you recently and provide you with an easy way to access these public domain resources that Tom is so kind to host for us. Hopefully he will be able to keep this site here for a long time to come - as it is a great ministry to help many of us who just can't afford to purchase all of these resources.

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PBB Updater v1.2.0	08/27/08 5:28 am	482.5 KB