How the automatic update system works (Mac)
Read details about the SetupBuilder web updating system. This page tells you the latest version and gives you a download link. exe files. When this happens, Prism uses a different strategy to help you update.
Why? Perhaps it is due to some security settings of firewall on your computer or perhaps the corporate firewall forbids loading of. In some cases Prism is not able to load and read the versinfo.ini or is not able to launch webinstall. That updating program downloads the new version of Prism from that same server folder.įor obtaining versioninfo, downloading webinstall, and downloading the new installer, Prism communicates with the server using only the http protocol over port 80. If you answer yes, it downloads the file WebInstallPrism6.exe file from the same server folder, and runs this application on your computer. If the current version specified in that file is newer than the version actually running, Prism asks if you want to update. (the digit "6" is whatever version you are running) If the preference is set to check for updates, on every launch Prism downloads a tiny file from: How the automatic update system works (Windows)
There are two alternative ways to tell Prism not to check for updates: How to turn off checking for automatic updates Starting with Prism 5 Windows and Prism 6 Mac, Prism can automatically check for updates, for example from release 6.03 to 6.07