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When Will Libre Office get a Working Update Tool for Windows?

posted by martyb on Thursday November 10 2016, @02:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the differences-are-good dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

I find the Libre Office Update tool for the Windows version of the Suite is not really worth having at all. A notice will pop up indicating that an update is available, but the tool just goes to the Libre Office web site for you to download the full package manually. Compare that to the Pale Moon web browser, which will download small update packages when a new version becomes available. You do not need to remove the old version of Pale Moon to install the update, because its update tool takes care of it automatically.

Libre Office is a high profile Open Source application, I am surprised that their version for the Windows operating system does not have an easy upgrade path. I think that working on the Upgrade tool would be a worthy upgrade to the Suite, and the current version is holding back adoption of it.

Disclaimer: I am not a programmer, so I can't write an upgrade tool on my own. Also my employers owns any software I create (employment agreement).

[Ed note: I was debating whether or not to run this story. Sounds like it could lead to a good discussion. If LibreOffice can download deltas on other platforms, why not on Windows? What practical reason could there be?]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @04:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @04:12AM (#424993)

    > One true office to screw us all,

    ...which is why I still use Office 97 when I'm doing the writing/creating. Last version that does not phone home (afaik), still has normal menus and is damn fast on recent hardware. A bit of a pain to get working on Windows 7, but there are tips out there to help. I usually install this first on any new system so the MS installer doesn't muck up anything else.