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Old 02-12-2018, 03:20 PM   #9
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But I really can't understand, why the developers aren't integrating any auto-update functionality. I'm macOS user and nearly every relevant app has it's updater. It saves a lot of time to keep up-2-date. No need for investing 3-5 extra minutes on waiting, overwriting, keeping the eyes on process bars and confirm every little step.
I'm guessing it comes down to how many hours there are in a day. To implement auto-update in Calibre, you would probably have to write code for one or two Mac versions, three or four Windows versions and a zillion Linux distributions (I exaggerate slightly). Personally I'm amazed at how often Calibre is updated, but I usually bypass about three or four of these before worrying about it. In Linux Mint it's just a matter of clicking on the Update link, cutting and pasting the commands into the terminal, running them and – voila', done – the whole process takes about three minutes. I like having control over it. I use the binary updates because Linux Mint (especially for the older version I use on my Desktop computer) is usually well behind the curve. If I was using the version in my Linux Mint 17.1 repository, I would be using 1.25 at this point, instead of 3.17.

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