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By Matthew Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 12:41 GMT
Why can't skype just patch the flawed code, rather than forcing people to download all 22Mb again?
By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 12:59 GMT
'cos they're trying to beat the size of Apple's QT updates?
By Adrian Jones Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 13:24 GMT
Well, looking in Skype\Phone\ on Windows, there's a 20.8Mb Skype.exe. So the question should be "Why don't Skype break up a 20.8Mb executable into individual components so that they *can* just patch the flawed code?"
Well, looking in Skype\Phone\ on Windows, there's a 20.8Mb Skype.exe.
So the question should be "Why don't Skype break up a 20.8Mb executable into individual components so that they *can* just patch the flawed code?"
By Steve Evans Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 13:32 GMT
I was just thinking the same thing whilst watching it crawl in at 66KB/s *yawn*
By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 17:13 GMT
more like "Skype sledge-hammers cross-zone scripting bug"
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Comments on: Skype squishes cross-zone scripting bug
Updates #
By Matthew Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 12:41 GMT
@Updates #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 12:59 GMT
Patching? #
By Adrian Jones Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 13:24 GMT
@Matthew... #
By Steve Evans Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 13:32 GMT
with a 22MB update... #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 17:13 GMT