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

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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:37AM (#425087)

    If you get it from the mac app store then you'll get auto updates.
    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/libreoffice-vanilla/id921923693 [apple.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by RedBear on Friday November 11 2016, @10:13AM

    by RedBear (1734) on Friday November 11 2016, @10:13AM (#425619)

    If you get it from the mac app store then you'll get auto updates.
    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/libreoffice-vanilla/id921923693 [apple.com]

    I'm well aware of that, thanks. But the version in the Mac App Store is apparently some strange non-standard thing put together by a company called Collabora. It's not done by the LibreOffice team. According to the reviews it has weird major stability and functionality bugs. Like, only being able to print in landscape. I checked it out a couple of years ago and went right back to downloading LibreOffice from the website manually.

    Besides which I'm no longer a fan of proprietary app stores. I have more than once been unable to start an App Store application until I logged into the App Store. It's not normally a problem but I think I confused it by logging in sometimes with a developer account to download beta software. Anyway, it seems like a fine idea at first since it manages app updates like a real package manager. But in the end, it sucks. I avoid it now if at all possible. Almost all Mac software is still available outside the App Store.

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