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Re:Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace by qbane on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @06:32AM (#43182732)
If one can "force uninstall" for safety, then it implies that automatic upgrading an extension with the user's consent is unsafe at the first place.
Re:Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @08:04AM (#43183264)
It is, but that's the reality of today - auto-updates, "evergreen" releases. This was popularised by Chrome, and IMO fixed a LOT of headaches and allowed for much faster and more agile release cycles - the reality before was that a company like Microsoft would have to provide support for older versions of their software for X years and deal with the fallout of security issues with remaining older versions. (Web) developers had to be careful about adopting newer features because X% of their user base would still be on older versions of the runtime, leading to the invention of transpilers and the start of what is still a very complicated system in web front-end world.
Re:Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace by account42 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @06:42AM (#43193444)
It doesn't fix any headaches it just outsources them to the users who get surprise breakages of their workflow in the middle of an important project.
Re:Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace by qbane on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @02:15PM (#43187075)
* without the user's consent