@ Windcatcher
One approach would be to code a patch server which has a list that is checked when the client version of the patcher connects looking for updates, if the timestamp of files on server is newer than what is in users everquest directory then client patcher downloads the newer files from the patch server. Im sure there are several ways to create a patching system, I do believe that someone had already posted a windows patcher in forums, been awhile like a year or so.. posters name was corfuben or something like that, if that forum link doesnt work, i can take a stab at coding one.
Porting it to different systems is very simple with c++ and QT, because no changes need to be made to the source code by you, you just choose an option when compiling the source. So when I compile the editor im working on I do a qmake -Unix followed by a make, and tada it works on my OpenBSD system, or if I wanted to use on my Windows machine just use -Win32. Its just my preference, because not everyone on here has windows as their standard machine.
might want to browse forums for corfubens patcher.. cant remember if it was open source or not.. but i believe he coded his in visual basic. cant remember really. touch bases with me later.
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