`update` should prompt to close running outdated apps
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'm confused because the App Store tells me about a new app version, but 'mas' doesn't, even after doing 'mas upgrade' and 'mas outdated'. It's constantly happening to me so I have to open the Mac App Store and update via itself, so that makes me think that mas isn't as useful as I'd like. So an option to force a scan for updates / oudated apps would be nice.
I'm running the latest 'mas' version 1.7 and running the latest macOS catalina 10.15.5 stable, constantly running 'brew update/upgrade' to keep everything fresh but still 'mas' doesn't upgrade the Mac App Store apps.
Describe the solution you'd like
For example same as other brew commands have a -force or --force flag when doing 'mas outdated' or 'mas upgrade'
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the discrepancy with mas outdated and mas upgrade on macOS, then compare their results with the Mac App Store. Clarify whether the finished behavior should force an update scan, prompt to close running outdated apps, or both, and define the command option and expected output.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, swift
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100