In app updater

[igloo15]

Right now when an update is released it requires going to github downloading the file and extracting it. Then updating the binaries where ever you have it installed with the new ones. This is a cumbersome process but typically fairly easy and straight forward. It becomes more annoying though if there are multiple releases in a short period of time.

The user then can either turn off updates which is probably not recommended or update each version as they release. I propose 2 ideas that could be done independently or at the same time.

1. Make a stable/lts version and a nightly version. If users pick nightly option they will get an update alert on every release. If they pick stable/lts they would only get alerts on cumulative updates that are released maybe once a month. This would reduce the number of alerts people get without turning off update alerts all together. This could be accomplished by having some tag in the release version that denotes a nightly vs stable/lts release.
2. Implement an in app updater system. Something like Squirrel which would allow users to just click a button on ui and have the app update and restart automatically.

I think doing both options is a good idea but doing option 1 shouldn't be too difficult to implement while a more long term solution is developed like option 2.

[love-linger]

On what operating system do you use SourceGit?

[igloo15]

Windows 11

[love-linger]

It's recommanded to use winget to install SourceGit.

winget install SourceGit