Re: [libreoffice-users] Mac OS X 10.4 Check for Updates Glitched

Hi :)
The Updates item in the menu is fairly pointless.  

Updates tend to be minor patches to fix things in software that doesn't have full releases very 
often.  LibreOffice doesn't have minor updates very often as it's easier to just upgrade to a 
different release.  The 3.5.2 is a major release not just a minor patch.  Major new releases of 
LibreOffice happen more often than minor updates happen in most other software.  

In non-OpenSource software all the users settings, configurations, templates and so on, tend to get 
lost during a fresh install.  OpenSource tends to keep all those settings and stuff safely away 
from the main program so that a fresh install just picks up the previous settings.  It's sensible 
to take a back-up just before doing an install just in case something weird happens.  The settings 
and all that are stored in the "User Profile".  

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Mon, 16/4/12, precutcolours@mailcan.com <precutcolours@mailcan.com> wrote:

From: precutcolours@mailcan.com <precutcolours@mailcan.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Mac OS X 10.4 Check for Updates Glitched
To: "Users LibreOffice" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
Date: Monday, 16 April, 2012, 11:36

Have others seen this oddness?  In a previous release, LibreOffice
3.5.1.x, the Mac OS X PPC LibreOffice menu item, Help / Check for
Updates..., failed to report 3.5.2.x release that hit on 5 Apr 2012.  I
had to download and install it by hand.  Is the menu checker only for
major.minor numbers like 3.4.x.x to 3.5.x.x, not bugfix numbers like
3.5.1.x to 3.5.2.x?

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