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> KevinSawacki Nice to know, but it doesn't move a needle a bit. I have no desire to establish trusting relationship with Kevin, but I am willing to trust GitH
by eps 12y ago
> KevinSawacki
Nice to know, but it doesn't move a needle a bit. I have no desire to establish trusting relationship with Kevin, but I am willing to trust GitHub.
Adding a simple update checker is as trivial as pulling a URL and seeing if the response contains a version number that is greater than your own. How is this too hard to add and how it justifies adding some random dependency that needs full admin rights to run?
- SuddsMcDuff 12y agoAs cwoac mentioned, Chocolatey is quite well etablished on Windows and has been for some time, it's not "some random dependency".
- eps 12y agoPray tell how does being "quite well etablished" translate into being competent sysadmins and ensuring that they don't get compromised and won't end up pushing a whole load of crap on my box on the next update?
- chton 12y agoThat is an argument against literally every updater or automatic check for updates. It applies equally to Chocolatey and to any auto-updater they could have used for Atom. Please go back and find a better reason.
- eps 12y agoI am not making up reasons, so you can keep "go and find a better one" to yourself. There are no bulk auto-updaters on Windows except for Windows Update, which is professionally provisioned. If Chocolatey wants to act as one, it needs to measure up.
- eps 12y agoI am not making up reasons, so you can keep "go and find a better one" to yourself. There are no bulk auto-updaters on Windows except for Windows Update, which is professionally provisioned. If Chocolatey wants to act as one, it needs to measure up.