GNS3 Inline Updates - It's long overdue

[tdubbf]

GNS 3 needs to start doing inline updates. Making us download a new file and re-install every time there is a newer version is getting old. It seems the VM is capable of this however the desktop software has not gotten to this level.

[josephmhiggins]

I am completely against "forced" inline updates.
IMHO, inline updates are too massively complicated for the gns3 developers and are error prone.
On Windows 10, I can upgrade to a new version of GNS3 (with the GNS3 VM) and rollback within 15 minutes flat of detecting a failure in the new version of GNS3 - and I lose no projects. I will always succeed and never fail - if I follow my rules.
On Windows 10, I start with a working gns3 and a working gns3 vm and a working gns3 configuration - I protect them and block windows updates (for 7 days or so) and install no new software; I can rollback and I will never fail.

[josephmhiggins]

In my own little world, I would probably force all gns3 projects that were created in, i.e. gns3 version 2.2.39 and loaded in gns3 version 2.2.40, be forcibly saved into ~/GNS3/projects/2.2.40

That being said, backing up my windows gns3 profiles with powershell for default, Vm (vmware workstation), Pl (vmware player), and Re (remote server) was not fun to implement :(

But it worked.