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I wish they would start working on a auto-update feature for linux installations

• Thaxll 10y ago
  I've never seen that on Linux I think there are some technical limitation for that feature, Chrome doesn't have auto-update either.
  • irfanka 10y ago
    Well, I'd be fine with apt-get upgrade... It's what Chrome does, as well.
    • bopcrane 10y ago
      I second this, I'd just appreciate better integration with apt - I'm already using this method to update my linux machines anyways
    • simlevesque 10y ago
      The problem with this is that if they support apt, where should it stop ? should they support portage, pacman, homebrew, Nix, Guix, yum, dpkg ? I don't think it is Microsoft's job to provide packages for every manager. They should make an executable and then anyone who uses a package manager can package the program. Here's where you can get a community PPA for VSCode: https://github.com/tagplus5/vscode-ppa https://github.com/tagplus5/vscode-ppa
      • Thaxll 10y ago
        APT and YUM are the standard tbh, the rest is up to the community.
        • mixedCase 10y ago
          They are no standards. And both DEBs and RPMs are often distro specific. Linux releases should be done source only making it as easy as possible for packagers to compile using libraries present on the system; or using a tool like AppImage and packaging everything yourself.
• jhasse 10y ago
  The relevant issues: apt: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2973 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2973 yum/dnf: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/229 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/229