Hey Trevor, On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 09:22:30AM +0000, Trevor Robertson wrote: > Hi ... What is the best way to update Qutebrowser to a newer version? I > currently have 0.10.1 on Windows 10 Home that I installed manually, on my > home PC. > Maybe I'm overlooking an update button or command. If I simply download & > install it again: Must I uninstall the old one first?
Copy and pasting from a mail I sent to someone off-list recently: Right, there is no updater. The reason is that doing this kind of thing right is really difficult, both from a security perspective (see e.g. 1.5.2 at https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf/blob/develop/docs/tuf-spec.md ) and from a functionality perspective (with all the different OS' and ways of installing qutebrowser supports). I might take a look at it some day, but it's probably quite some effort benefiting a fraction of the userbase (most people are on Linux with a package manager), so it's really not a priority. You don't need to uninstall the old version, the installer should take care of it automatically. I added a note to the docs: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/commit/0d8edd54fbb0bfa4b846ec8da1b57bd1132ca30e > Or is one of the command-line focused installation methods that you list > for Windows the nicest one for frequent updating. You might want to try Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/packages/qutebrowser You'll still need to tell Chocolatey to update packages manually I think, but it'll take care of upgrading everything you manage with it. I don't have any personal experience with the qutebrowser package though, and it's been some years since I last used Chocolatey (I'm not using Windows regularily anymore). However, the maintainer seems to take great care of the package and updates so far. > Most important: Will my {custom keybindings} and {bookmarks} be kept? They should be, yes. However, v1.0.0 will come out soon-ish which has a completely new config system, so you'll need to reconfigure things once upgrading to that. This is a one-time thing though. > Say if I should I rather ask such questions on Freenote Webchat. .... I > would just like to be able to read your replies at work too; We can access > gmail at work but not Freenode. Don't worry, the mailinglist is fine. Florian -- https://www.qutebrowser.org | [email protected] (Mail/XMPP) GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | https://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc I love long mails! | https://email.is-not-s.ms/
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