New patching strategy

[Thomas Sant'ana]

Metrics are great, But then can hurt you bad.

I have been  tracking users sending metrics up, and the number of downloads was really much larger than the number of users. Turns out that a lot of users download the patchs manually (and this fails). This means that they get the wrong thing first, then download the  Full Release then patch it.

This is really bad user experience. I'll push 1.7.3 with the Aura fix and other monster fixes as a Full release. And disappear with this Full/Patch mecanism. 

The other thing I really want to do is change how the entire thing is packaged and make it update bits and pieces. I have played a bit with the way to do this using Maven and Aether. But have not had the time to package that. My idea is to have a small base installer that will fetch the lastest version straight from the sites maven repository. I need to help on testing this.

Thomas

[Thomas Sant'ana]

I updated the Download page to clean up a lot of old stuff and make the process clearer.

http://www.exnebula.org/vcc