On 21/10/2005, at 17.32, Josh Carter wrote:
[...] even the previous behavior is disconcerting: I get a dialog saying there's a new version to update to, but no further detail. No list of changes, no button that would take me to a list of changes, and no assurance that the update is authentic.
It sounds like the RSS feed is a better match for you (granted, you can still be the victim of DNS spoofing):
feed://appcast.textmate.org
I would like to show changes while/before downloading, my own experience though is, that I generally don't read it before I have actually updated — so this is not top priority ATM.
But the other issue is: it's a text editor. I don't want my text editor going off and downloading updates on its own accord. I don't want *any* of my software downloading updates on its own accord, but especially not the stuff that's supposed to be reasonably lightweight.
I'd think the more lightweight, the more natural would it be to just do a quick self-update (with users permission for replacing the old version of course).