Updates

[richmond62]

Well, this may be my fault (I have automatic updates turned OFF): but just now on my MacOS 12 machine I had to run OXT Lite 1.05 through 4 update cycles, which did seem a bit crazy.

1. Would it be possible that, after updates have been applied OXT Lite could be restarted rather than quit?

2. All 'up stream' updates could be applied in one go (rather than, in this case, 4)?

[tperry2x]

Well, this may be my fault (I have automatic updates turned OFF): but just now on my MacOS 12 machine I had to run OXT Lite 1.05 through 4 update cycles, which did seem a bit crazy.

I was pondering this idea - so perhaps in v1.06 the updates will download cumulatively, so they 'stack up' and then attempt to apply one after the other.

1. Would it be possible that, after updates have been applied OXT Lite could be restarted rather than quit?

Restarting OXT reliably would involve fully quitting the IDE. Only because so much is interwoven and you could get the situation where a stack was still open, still in memory - but the most recent version isn't loaded from disk. Better to quit fully, unloading everything in my opinion, to save trouble further along the line.

2. All 'up stream' updates could be applied in one go (rather than, in this case, 4)?

As above, but yes - something I'm thinking about.
Also want to have a checkbox to fall back to insecure http mode for MacOS 10.9.
Still, it's better than having to download a 400MB+ (700MB+ for MacOS) installer each time. These little patches are only stop-gap measures between the larger releases though, so when I release v1.06 - it obviously contains all the bits from v1.05 + these cumulative changes, so I'm generally aiming for less than 10 patches between major updates. I know what you mean though, would make sense if it grabbed everything it needed in one go and applied them sequentially.

The other thing I could do is make these smaller changes between versions less frequent (bundling them all together is what I mean), but that would mean there's more of a delay between smaller fixes though.

[richmond62]

Still a whole lot better than the "in your face" thing:
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Not the use of 'upgrade' rather than 'update'.