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Yes, and once we have the tooling to build portable .tar.gz application packages someone should come up with a tool to automatically upgrade them.
by veeti 4y ago
Yes, and once we have the tooling to build portable .tar.gz application packages someone should come up with a tool to automatically upgrade them.
- dTal 4y agoPerhaps. Extrapolating the idea that .tar.gz application packages should be standalone, a better system than an external updater might be that the aforementioned build tooling includes an "update" script inside the .tar.gz. Then the user can run them at their own convenience. This is similar to how Firefox's updater works, except Firefox itself does double duty as the update script.