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The update checker for Linux works incorrectly, it checks the Geany repository for a new version, not the repositories for the current distro. Most distros don't update versions of software like Geany on LTS versions for example. So it just feeds frustration for users of such systems as they see Geany has released a new version but its not in their repository.
Its really only useful for Windows, but maybe it could be made useful for Macos if it looked at the right repository because it can get new bugfix releases separate from Geany.
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See geany/geany-osx#53 (comment)
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The update checker for Linux works incorrectly, it checks the Geany repository for a new version, not the repositories for the current distro. Most distros don't update versions of software like Geany on LTS versions for example. So it just feeds frustration for users of such
I'd say it depends on the user. There is maybe a minority of users who compile Geany themselves from release tarballs and for those the plugin might be useful.
Its really only useful for Windows, but maybe it could be made useful for Macos if it looked at the right repository because it can get new bugfix releases separate from Geany.
Isn't the plugin for Macos in the same way useful as for Windows as it checks geany.org for the latest version and this is where the Macos version is distributed.
AFAIK Geany is not mainly distributed via some sort of repository like "brew" or so but via downloadable installers from our website and so I thought the update checker plugin would do the same job on Macos as on Windows.
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AFAIK Geany is not mainly distributed via some sort of repository like "brew" or so but via downloadable installers from our website and so I thought the update checker plugin would do the same job on Macos as on Windows.
I thought I had seen @techee make bugfix builds on the geany-osx repository, I guess if they get uploaded to the Geany website that would be ok, but then whats their version, if its the same then the update checker won't notice?
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Just to note what the expectation of many users may be, both Chrome browser and Vscode IDE update checkers indicate a new version in app, and when triggered to update can indicate if its available by an "alternate channel" which means the distro normal update mechanism rather than direct from Google/MS source repo. Don't know how they do that, but maybe its in the open source parts of those apps?
Edit: both apps have added an additional package repository to sources.list
so thats how they know and can get updated when the distro updates. I guess that unless it can be totally automated we don't have the resources to support that.
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