I don't find this that useful. Unless the internal updater starts using differential updates (which would be great), I think it's better to just open the download site in a browser.
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Joel Madero <jmadero....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I know we've discussed this already a few times - both within ESC and > within the QA call but I wanted to get a better sense of what is needed > to move forward with getting it fixed. FWIW I've closed 3 bugs this at > least tangentially related to the subject. > > So - from what I understand the entire updater is just broken, when you > get a notification that there is a new version you click it and it just > takes you to the website where additional clicks are needed to download, > and then more to install. > > QA has discussed this a few times and generally I think we've come up > with a roadmap of what would be ideal but I know that it will require > others to implement so I'm not trying to "push" this onto any developer > just curious how (if at all) we can get it fixed. > > Phase I: > Fix what is already there - currently you can go to Help -> Check for > Updates and there is a "Install" button that is always inactive. How > much work would it take to at least fix that? If this will never get > fixed (or be a long time) I think we should remove the button as it just > reminds users about a broken feature that has been broken for a long > time already. > > FWIW here I think we need to be clearer about what it means to "check > for update" because it's based on what branch you are on > > > Phase II: > Add new options to allow a user to select the branch they want > (fresh/stable/pre-release) and then another option to either "download > only" or "download and install" which would automatically either > download to a folder or download and install upon release. > > I think Phase II would be an amazing addition that would be kind of one > of those big things we could run some PR about during a major release. > > > Like I said - not pushing this on anyone, just curious where we stand as > I see updater related bug reports and enhancement requests and QA has > discussed it quite a few times as something that we feel need some > love/attention. > > > > Best Regards, > Joel > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice >
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