Update command

[lkurzyniec]

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What would you like to see changed/added?

If that's possible, It would be nice to have an update command. I could just type oh-my-posh update and magic would happen (I mean, the latest version would be installed). After all, restart of terminal and I have the newest version on my machine.

[marchello2000]

+1 this would be awesome

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@lkurzyniec this is a huge challenge depending on how you installed. For Windows, check. For macOS and Linux not so much.

[lkurzyniec]

Yeah, I could imagine that it can be a huge challenge. That's why I have added "If that's possible" :)

[nopeless]

ideally if you have installed a software using a package manager, the software should be managed and updated by the package manager. This would be outside of the scope of oh-my-posh

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@nopeless exactly. Unless you went for a manual install, in which case running the same install command will upgrade the binary and included themes.

For those of you who request this, how did you install oh-my-posh?

[lkurzyniec]

I have installed by installer (windows, exe), but I have no problem to start using winget.

It's worth to consider to adjust install PS script (https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/blob/main/website/static/install.ps1) to start using winget (or other package manager) as well.

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@lkurzyniec I don't mind seeing if we can add this for Windows only. Seems solvable.

[392781]

ideally if you have installed a software using a package manager, the software should be managed and updated by the package manager. This would be outside of the scope of oh-my-posh

Except there is no unified package manager for Linux... Homebrew is sort of a bandaid fix for that and running curl every time to update kinda sucks. Granted, packaging for major distros is a headache on its own.

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@392781 running curl or update internally is kind of the same logic that will be executed tbh.

[JanDeDobbeleer]

OK, this is funny. Inno installer can't replace oh-my-posh when the installer is being invoked from oh-my-posh as that means oh-my-posh is running and has a lock on it 😆 Works on unix though....

EDIT: solved with a go routine to allow the installer to start and oh-my-posh to stop