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by sWW26 2392 days ago
That's weird because I get your ideal update flow in the apps of theirs I use (Rider, Webstorm & Datagrip) i.e. a notification that there is a new update with an update now button that downloads and installs the update. Maybe it's a platform specific thing, I'm on Windows.
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AFAIK that's how the "individually downloaded" apps behave, but Toolbox apps -- for good or bad -- appear to be whole-hog downloads each time. I strongly suspect that's due to the roll-forward and roll-back behavior in Toolbox. Although unless my mental model is wrong, it should still be possible for Toolbox to have release-1 in a directory and _create_ a release-2 directory based on (release-1 + update patch), just into a new directory instead of in-place
Interesting, I haven't seen that in WebStorm, PhpStorm, DataGrip, CLion, IntelliJ or PyCharm. I'm on Windows 10. Hmmm. Need to look at latest updates and see if things changed. That would be wonderful. Thanks for the note.

I've been doing circuit design for a couple of months and haven't touched any of the tools. I'll let you know what I discover.