Paul Scott wrote:

> you are expected to download the whole thing again?

Yes.

> Also, there are no hints given for updating as opposed to a new install

Because the way to update is to do a complete install.

> What it needs: (some are desperately needed, some are improvements)
> 
> - A specific 'How to update' landing page

That page would contain one line:  "To update, download and
install the new version of OOo."

> - A better way of showing 'what's changed' than Release notes just
> referencing bug numbers

Would you rather that the entire bug report was cut and
pasted there?

Or are you advocating that people be unable to figure out
which items in issuezilla have been fixed/included in the
version of OOo that is being released?

> but for now there's at least one user who hasn't got the latest security
> upodates and bugfixes applied, and I'd bet there's a whole lot more out

a) IIRC, only two versions of OOo have had security patches
released for them. In both instances, "patched" versions of
OOo were available for downloading whilst those patches were
on the website.

b) Patch upgrades can only go so far.  One major issue in
creating patches, is that certain assumptions are made about
the build to be patched against. If, for whatever reason, a
different build was used for the version of OOo that you
installed, you just rendered that software useless.

> Updating (software *and* process) is something it's worth spending some time 
> on..

And what do you think the difference between OOo 2.0.3 and
OOo 2.0.4 is?

xan

jonathon

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