alt Hacker NewsThing is… who is regularly running `npm update` or `cargo update` to keep local software up to date?
I wouldn’t, because I might be in a repo and it starts upgrading all my local dependencies, and I’m not gonna add a text editor as a dev dependency. I’ll happily take the binary, or a tar.gz with the binary in it, though.
(Btw I love how it’s following the old DOS aesthetic)
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_sinelaw_ • yesterday at 7:36 PM
The npm distribution here is just the binary, you run npm install again and it upgrades to the latest binary. That's convenient
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> who is regularly running `npm update` or `cargo update` to keep local software up to date?
I do, religiously, as part of my routine to check for updates.
Sometimes things break (that's how `npm uninstall -g corepack` became a part of my one-liner), but it is easier to update often than to neglect updates for years.