How to update TC and its plugins automatically?

[ceav]

I think TC should have this function.

This is inconvenient in the extreme on TC, especially updating its plugins.

[Clo]

ceav

• About TC itself, this has been discussed many times, please use the Search…

• There are HUNDREDS of plug-ins - plus various tools- so if you want to wait for ages at every start up…
- Sorry, but personally, I don't support both :

1. Here, I've FIVE TC versions installed, so an auto-update from an installer looking for a single key in the Registry doesn't the trick at all.
- Thus, I always update my TC by hand.

2. I use a few plug-ins and tools, so I'm quite able to update them as and when required, no need for an octopus function…

 KR
Claude
Clo

[ceav]

ceav

• About TC itself, this has been discussed many times, please use the Search…

• There are HUNDREDS of plug-ins - plus various tools- so if you want to wait for ages at every start up…
- Sorry, but personally, I don't support both :

FIREFOX has thousands upon thousands addons. At least, TC should have "CLICK BUTTON" to update its plugins by hand.

1. Here, I've FIVE TC versions installed, so an auto-update from an installer looking for a single key in the Registry doesn't the trick at all.
- Thus, I always update my TC by hand.

Most TC users only use one version!

2. I use a few plug-ins and tools, so I'm quite able to update them as and when required, no need for an octopus function…

I have used 53 plug-ins. It's terrible to download plug-ins from internet one by one by hand for update .

[fenix_productions]

2ceav
Please be patient. AFAIK BuKoX (an author of TC PP) is working on updater.

I have also made .NET tool for that purpose long time ago (no longer available) but I had to abandon that due the lack of the time (keeping the base updated take a lot).

For time being the only thing you can do is to subscribe to RSS channels on plugins sites.

[sqa_wizard]

The main questions are:

1. Where should the updater look for an update ?
- the official site holds only few of them, which are rarely up to date
- the semi-official sites like totalcmd.net or totalcmd.pl and alike, which have different sets and versions

2. Who will pay for this extra traffic ?
(note that the semi-official sites are private ones)

3. What is the benefit of the extra traffic over the existing RSS feed ?
- in case of TC the last update period was 1 year (7.04a: 08.08.08 - 7.50: 09.09.09)
- development of most of the plugins has been stopped, only few (1 %) are updated regularly => a lot of traffic for nothing

My opinion on this is: RSS feed is sufficient !
Furthermore: using always the latest version doesn't mean that this one is as stable as your current version ...

[wanderer]

As Claude mentioned a couple of posts above, it has been discussed extensively in the past. I also think a "plugins update notifier" (at least) would be great but it seems that no one (including me) was interested to start such a project.

2ceav
Please be patient. AFAIK BuKoX (an author of TC PP) is working on updater.

Great news. Let's hope he manages to create a properly-working utility and also have the time to maintain it.

[Boofo]

Didn't they used to have a file system plugin called "Versions" that did that?

[wanderer]

Didn't they used to have a file system plugin called "Versions" that did that?

Yes, sort-of. I still use it under Firefox for updating misc utilities i use. I found TC's version not very convenient because i also had to research and organize all TC plugins, which was quite some work.