andymatuschak/Sparkle — Issue #63: Provide capability to revert to previous version if new version has unexpected bugs
Author: andymatuschak
Created: 2011-10-23 17:13:19+00:00
State: open
Labels: Migrated

***Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak)** [reported (on Launchpad)](https://bugs.launchpad.net/sparkle/+bug/228453) on' 2008-05-09:*

"Seems to me that the only downside of self-updating is that if the new
version suffers from a bug that makes it unusable for a particular user,
that user is going to have to jump through hoops to be able to get back
to the previous version. Perhaps Sparkle could store the previous
version internally as a diff, making it possible to revert to an older
version if need be. I realize this is unlikely to be a common need, but
I'll bet there are users out there who are unhappy about self-updating
for this reason."

AMM: This seems like a good idea (though a wish, really); seems like a
custom driver could handle cherrypicking versions.

This ticket was migrated from the old trac: re #39
Originally reported by: ace@tidbits.com