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Documentation and questions on methods to keep yarn up to date on Windows #1021
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What problems on Windows are you having? |
I had seen some references to problems, but I tried it and it works for me too. But that still doesn't answer the question of what is the recommended way to keep yarn up to date (or why it is listed as an alternate method for Windows instead of the primary method for installing yarn in the first place). There also is not a And I also just tried running I'm just looking for some type of canonical documentation on how to keep yarn updated on Windows directly from the developers. |
Actually, I just found the
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How did you install Yarn? We have a Chocolatey package available now. If you install using Chocolatey, you can use Unfortunately I haven't thought much about upgrades when using the Windows installer (MSI). Perhaps |
I did install via the MSI file. Chocolatey is a nice platform but I currently would prefer a more simplistic approach. To my knowledge Chocolatey hasn't quite solved the conundrum of apps that self-update vs apps that don't, so package management on Windows platforms is still quite a bit messier that on other platforms. In other words, I'd rather not have to deal with Chocolatey at the moment for a subset of apps that I use. I'd much rather prefer an app that can update itself. If As a side note, it also might be nice to have some occasional check that is done to grab the most recent version number of |
I created #1138 as a feature request for Yarn to periodically check the version number at startup, and optionally allow automatically upgrades. I think that covers your concerns in this issue, so I'm going to close this issue. Thank you for trying Yarn! 😄
See the last bit of #385's description. That was about Linux packaging, but a lot of the same arguments apply to Windows. |
I also created #1139 to update |
This worked for me...
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Documentation and possibly a feature request as well
On Windows platforms, what is the recommended way for keeping yarn itself up to date?
Is it going to be different based on different install methods? In other words, if we install via .msi file will we need to manually check for new versions and download another .msi file?
I know that installing through NPM is listed as one possible install method, but that appears to have problems on Windows (at least for now). It would be nice if there was a way to have yarn update itself just as NPM can.
Thanks to all the contributors for great work so far!
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