Updates vs upgrades

[thany]

Some of the listed updates are actually upgrades. So for instance, it suggests an "update" from SQL Server 2019 to 2022. I have a specific version of SQL Server for development stuff, and I SHOULD NOT upgrade things like that. For to the point, it's not an update, but an *upgrade*. It's a toally new version, new system, new everything. Unlikely to be 100% backwards compatible, and when using it on a commercial license, it requires a new license.

Same goes for Visual Studio, it lists an update for that as well, but it's an *upgrade* from 2019 to 2022 (or whatever it is).

Also weirdly, VSCode is not listed?... Why not?

[thany]

It's not just simply the same list as in Settings -> Apps (in Windows settings) right? That would be kind of daft. I do see identical names in the "Installed" list, so... Check the one for Total Commander, for example.

[Curson]

Hi thany,

It's not possible for us to make the difference between "update" and "upgrade".
Versioninfo numbers do not follow any standard.

I wil check for VS Code.

Regards.

[thany]

How could you not know the difference between an update and an upgrade? You're keeping the database of updates, so surely you could split out those versions between major releases of software. At least in software where it matters. And you where it matters, because you're the guys keeping that database.

As a user, offering an update to VS2019 being VS2022 is useless to me, first of all because I don't have a license for it, and secondly because there are also still legitimate updates to the 2019 release.

Same goes for Node.js - don't just offer updates to the very latest version, but to the installed version.

You wouldn't do the same thing with games, if UCheck were to support them.

[Curson]

Hi thany,

UCheck doesn't know if there is a real update available or not or if it's beta or not, it's based on Community Feedbacks.
Editors do not use standard versioning (see Software versioning) so we cannot use the numbers to deduce it ourselves.

Regards.