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[Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 17, 2014 10:44 AM, "Rodney Dawes" <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> However, I think even the "official" providers for Online Acocunts
> should eventually become click packages for each provider. If an
> upstream (Google, AOL, Yahoo, whomever) decides to change what URL the
> OAuth should be grabbed from, or similar, a click package would let us
> have the update out in a matter of minutes. With the providers being
> part of the system image, though, it means we'd have to do all th e
> extra work that comes with building a system image and pushing it out as
> an update to users.

This has been an enormous problem for webapps through the life of the
project and we've had to constantly sru simple fixes for things that
changed in remote servers we don't control. Shipping that kind of thing as
click packages is absolutely the right way to go.