[Cuis-dev] handling message "There is a newer version that currently loaded"

Mark Volkmann r.mark.volkmann at gmail.com
Fri Nov 1 08:40:36 PDT 2024


On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 10:36 AM ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> On 2024-10-31 15:18, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> > Thanks so much for explaining that! Would it be a bad idea for "Install
> > New Updates" to do that automatically? It seems like if you already
> > have packages installed and you have asked to install new updates, you
> > would want those packages to be updated as well.
>
> Non-base packages you have loaded are more likely to be ones you are
> working on.
>
> Loading "over" these might be right or might be wrong.
>
> If someone else has changed a package, which you picked up with a
> `pullAllRepos` and you have changes as well, you can use the FileList
> and get a Code view to merge the changes, perhaps file out diffs, ..
> whatever.
>
> Sometimes "automagic" is the wrong thing to do.  Perhaps a PopUp to give
> options in this case would be a good thing to donate. ;^)
>

Makes sense. Thanks Ken!

-- 
R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.
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