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I don't suppose he's backtracked on his awful position on auto-updates?

akerl_ 12y ago
For those of us missing context, care to share? I'm definitely not a fan of every launch of Calibre showing me a prompt to update, but I'm also not sold on apps that upgrade without my express consent.
fineIllregister 12y ago
Someone has packaged it for Windows using the Chocolatey NuGet package manager: http://chocolatey.org/packages/calibre http://chocolatey.org/packages/calibre I'm sure OS X has something similar, but I wouldn't know where to find it.
- cooper12 12y ago
  OSX has homebrew-cask [0, 1], which is built on homebrew to distribute binaries. I checked and a formula for calibre is present. [2] [0]: http://caskroom.io/ http://caskroom.io/ [1]: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask [2]: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/calibre.rb https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...
  - dewey 12y ago
    Unfortunately there's still no proper "upgrade" command for cask, there's a lengthy discussion on how to deal with that on their issue tracker [0] though. For now you'll still have to rely on a workaround. Currently I'm using an alias to clear the old binary and download the new one. [1] [0] https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/309 https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/309 [1] https://blog.notmyhostna.me/make-calibre-updates-less-annoying/ https://blog.notmyhostna.me/make-calibre-updates-less-annoyi...
kinleyd 12y ago
Too frequent updates have been an irritant for me, largely on account of my slow internet connection. I always felt that many of the updates could have been bundled, unless it was a major fix. But no, they kept flowing in![0] More recently my reading habits have changed and I much prefer to go directly for my books on my desktop. I've uninstalled calibre now. All I really need is a cli or a basic client (much like ncmpc for mpd) for my books. I'm looking for something along those lines, and am also planning to do a hobby project for that if the urge grows. [0] On every Arch Linux update.

For those of us missing context, care to share? I'm definitely not a fan of every launch of Calibre showing me a prompt to update, but I'm also not sold on apps that upgrade without my express consent.

fineIllregister 12y ago

Someone has packaged it for Windows using the Chocolatey NuGet package manager: http://chocolatey.org/packages/calibre http://chocolatey.org/packages/calibre I'm sure OS X has something similar, but I wouldn't know where to find it.

cooper12 12y ago
OSX has homebrew-cask [0, 1], which is built on homebrew to distribute binaries. I checked and a formula for calibre is present. [2] [0]: http://caskroom.io/ http://caskroom.io/ [1]: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask [2]: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/calibre.rb https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...
- dewey 12y ago
  Unfortunately there's still no proper "upgrade" command for cask, there's a lengthy discussion on how to deal with that on their issue tracker [0] though. For now you'll still have to rely on a workaround. Currently I'm using an alias to clear the old binary and download the new one. [1] [0] https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/309 https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/309 [1] https://blog.notmyhostna.me/make-calibre-updates-less-annoying/ https://blog.notmyhostna.me/make-calibre-updates-less-annoyi...

kinleyd 12y ago

Too frequent updates have been an irritant for me, largely on account of my slow internet connection. I always felt that many of the updates could have been bundled, unless it was a major fix. But no, they kept flowing in![0] More recently my reading habits have changed and I much prefer to go directly for my books on my desktop. I've uninstalled calibre now. All I really need is a cli or a basic client (much like ncmpc for mpd) for my books. I'm looking for something along those lines, and am also planning to do a hobby project for that if the urge grows. [0] On every Arch Linux update.