Allan,
I'm a newbie TextMate user, and just did the first version update this morning. I have to say, 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. That's enough to make me not use the auto-update feature, but I do still like the notification that there's a new version.
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.
Just my $.02 on that issue. FWIW, I'm loving TextMate. It's the most innovative editor I've seen since emacs, and it might be enough to make me actually switch away from my old-skool unix roots. :) Certainly it's the first that's genuinely impressed me, and made me set aside some money for when the demo period expires.
Best regards, Josh
On Oct 21, 2005, at 9:04 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
What security problems would there be? It's basically doing exactly the same as the actual version check, download a file from the server, this one is just bigger -- if this is a security concern, you may want to disable version checks altogether :)
Available bandwidth: you can cancel the download when it starts. I could make that into a pause/resume. But maybe try it for a few versions and see if you ever actually get the download and it spoils something by consuming bandwidth.
I think this is one of those cases where on paper it sounds like maybe not the best thing to do because of presumed privacy issues or similar, but in real-life it's just a handy time-saver.