Faster Update Builds - It Already Works!!

I've been asking for a way to speed up our builds on this forum for a while. Our wyBuild build & upload process was up to two hours, which made troubleshooting our updates very slow. I asked for a feature that would allow us to only build incremental updates for some versions, while using the "all" updates for the rest. I was told that a future version would have this capability.

I finally got the time set aside to modify the wyupdate source code and add the functionality that we needed. When I looked at the source code, I realized that it *already* had the feature, I just hadn't used the right approach when testing.

To get the behavior I wanted I've deleted most of the updates in wyBuild, the ones that few users have, or that didn't ever get released to end users for various reasons. Computers with versions that were deleted from wyBuild when the current update was built simply update using the "all" update.

The majority of our users are now able to download small, incremental updates, while our internal test machines and beta customers are still able to download a functional, albeit larger, update. The latest build and upload took 4 minutes!

I feel a bit silly for complaining so vocally when it already was possible, but I don't understand why this behavior wasn't mentioned in any reply. I haven't seen this behavior documented anywhere, either. I hope this post helps others avoid the same silliness.