On 21/10/2005, at 16.46, Robert M. Zigweid wrote:
[CHANGED] When a new version is available, TextMate will download it automatically (w/o first asking the user), though showing progress underway which can be cancelled.
I have to say..UGH here. Can we get this turned into an option? I'm usually the type that prefers to initiate my downloads rather than having them done for me, for a variety of reasons, some security, some due to available bandwidth at the time, etc.
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.