Questions tagged [software-updates]
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Hiding non-user-facing executables for Windows applications?
Our Windows application makes use of some open source components in the form of their publicly released executables. (One example is 7za.exe that we use to zip old log files.) We do not want users to ...
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When reconstructing file B from file A and a binary difference B-A, given that A and B-A are correct, do we still need to verify the integrity of B?
In the context of a software update system, suppose we have the following: a.tar: an archive file containing an old version of an application b-a.patch: a file containing the binary difference of the ...
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What should my next SemVer version number be?
For a frontend web app version 3.9, we have a visual change that I would constitute as a backwards compatible (as far as the API) new feature. Therefor, my SemVer instinct is to bump the minor version ...
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Why do library developers deliberately break existing code?
Today, I updated ZBateson\MailMimeParser the PHP e-mail parser library from 1.x to 2.x. Soon enough, my PHP error log started filling up with errors. Noting where it happened, I found out that it had ...
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How to explain a software bug to a child [closed]
When I buy a house or a car, the product is already completely ready. It's very seldom that an error will be noticed later by the customer. In software engineering, on the other hand, errors (bugs) ...
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How to deploy python microservices app updates?
I'm working on python microservices based app and I'm wondering how to ship updates. Let's start by a summary of what I have: Code base on git (several repos) The app is running on several remote ...
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How to update version when only dependencies are updated?
I have a public project that I'm the single developer. I love updating packages to new versions regularly and keep the project up to date with the updated environment. This is probably not always a ...
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Delta Updating, what it is, how to implement it, where is it found? [closed]
I am not sure where this is going to go, and I am not sure if this is even the right Stack group to be posting in for this matter. But simply I want to create from scratch using my knowledge of C# a ...
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