syncthing / syncthing/syncthing-macos
Make the auto-updater more user friendly so people don't brick their installation with the latest incompatible version
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Description
I have MacOS 10.12
I just updated the app to v1.20.3-1 as prompted to by the app.
It's now broken - it won't start.
I see in the readme - https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos#macos-version-support - that the latest version now needs 10.13.
Can the app not upgrade on older MacOS? Or can the app check if the version is to old and pop up a user friendly message if so?
ps. Also this section - https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos#installation - still says 10.12 and so is out of date.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the auto-updater behavior and the macOS version support and installation sections of the README. Confirm how an update is offered on macOS 10.12 and define completion as preventing an incompatible update or showing a user-friendly message, while keeping the documented minimum version accurate.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, objective-c
- Domain
- desktop, release
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100