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General Discussion / Re: What's your preference on keeping versions up-to-date ?
« on: April 27, 2017, 11:31:03 PM »
My preference is like what Valve or other companies have done.
The steam like version would be that a popup would come when a new version is available with a changelog attached to read and two buttons(Install/Update or close)
A worst example is blizzard with the battlenet app, where you get a popup on when a new version is available. You can press install or close. if you press install it updates it. if you press close the programm shutsfull down.
Or another prefered way of mine is what Mozilla had done. A use time check like above companies did and a self check for updates under the about window.
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In the end it is a hard question to solve since you can't make everybody happy with it. Some would like to check the developers site for new updates to install. Others would like to have an auto check.
Even others would like to have a full installer which is making a full install everytime.
The steam like version would be that a popup would come when a new version is available with a changelog attached to read and two buttons(Install/Update or close)
A worst example is blizzard with the battlenet app, where you get a popup on when a new version is available. You can press install or close. if you press install it updates it. if you press close the programm shutsfull down.
Or another prefered way of mine is what Mozilla had done. A use time check like above companies did and a self check for updates under the about window.
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In the end it is a hard question to solve since you can't make everybody happy with it. Some would like to check the developers site for new updates to install. Others would like to have an auto check.
Even others would like to have a full installer which is making a full install everytime.