Auto Fever
Jun 22 2009
Fever updates itself automatically
When I logged into my copy of Fever I got a splash screen that said Fever was updated to 1.01 successfully. Now while I'm happy to have the tools that I use maintained and the code updated I want to be the one controlling when to pull the trigger on the update. At first I was irritated that the code had automatically updated itself without asking me and then at myself for missing the fact that it behaved in this way.
Looking at the FeedaFever site I saw what I have overlooked. First column, second row - " Fever updates itself automatically".
For some people this behavior probably raises concerns about having the code make changes to itself and for the others it might not even raise an eyebrow. Hopefully Shaun will consider changing this behavior or at least add an option to disable the automatic updates.
There was an option in the preferences to disable this feature which I had missed. While still not the default behavior I think is best for a self-hosted web application, I am happy to be able to disable this feature.
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