Summary says it all. I know there's no consensus among the developers. But meanwhile
a self-updating program is become a thing that very much users simply expect as an
integrated feature.
Possibly a nice integration could be, that the plugin Managers update pane also provides
a core update as the very first list item...
| Submitted | rschwenn - 2010-02-17 - 22:16:09z | Assigned | nobody |
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| Priority | 5 | Category | Plugin manager |
| Status | Open | Group | None |
| Resolution | None | Visibility | No |
| 2011-11-16 - 23:36:55z ezust |
I think it would make more sense for the "About jEdit" dialog to have a way for Updater
to add a panel to it. This way, if updater is installed, it can show a button saying "update available" or a message "you are up to date" depending on updater's settings. I don't think it makes sense to have jEdit itself delivered through the plugin manager update pane. |
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| 2012-03-05 - 20:13:17z kog13 |
This is slightly unrelated, but it would also be nice if Updater was provided as a default plugin for Windows and maybe Mac. On Linux the package manager should take care of core updates, but Windows doesn't have one and most Mac users don't use theirs. |