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Bug 178871

Summary: Incremental upgrades rather than full installer download
Product: installer Reporter: Bradley Schmidt <psunb>
Component: CodeAssignee: dlipin <dlipin>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 6.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: Windows XP   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description Bradley Schmidt 2009-12-18 11:41:58 UTC 
A couple of users have requested this since the 6.8 release and IMO it makes  lot of sense. They would prefer to download an upgrade patch to go from NB 6.x to NB 6.z rather than having to download another 250mb installer. It's the model Firefox, Thunderbird and others use so it would be in line with current open source software conventions to make upgrades available this way. 

Because of bundled tools (Java ME SDK, JavaFX SDK, GlassFIsh, etc) this may not be possible for all IDE features, but perhaps the auto updater could be extended to allow for such incremental upgrades.
Comment 1 dlipin 2009-12-21 04:23:37 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 108684 ***