Future of Positron in r-bucket

[atsyplenkov]

Hey @cderv 👋

The latest version of Positron available in an r-bucket is 2025.02.0-171, while 2025.03.0-97 was released several days ago and still hasn't been updated in the Scoop buckets (r-bucket and extras).

I see that, as of 2025.03, there is now a way to automatically download and update the IDE (posit-dev/positron#6296). Does this mean that the Scoop bucket will no longer be updated? What's your view on this?

[cderv]

while 2025.03.0-97 was released several days ago and still hasn't been updated in the Scoop buckets (r-bucket and extras).

Thanks for the heads up on this. Positron changed their way to do releases it seems.

• Github releases does not have release artifact now, and that is why the manifest wasn't updated. They are using CDN url now.

• Extras has been updated today using CDN to follow the prerelease schedule: positron: Update to version 2025.03.0-116 ScoopInstaller/Extras#14992

• Their website (https://positron.posit.co/download.html) is still showing 2025.02.0-171 - so I don't know the real status to 2025.03.0-97.

On r-bucket, I decided to
- Add a positron-daily to follow daily build as it seems they have some now on daily cdn
- Add a positron-prerelease to follow prerelease build shared on prerelease cdn
- Move positron to use the same version as the one udpated at https://positron.posit.co/download.html

So if you are interesting by Prelease, you could use the Extras bucket only, or this bucket.

I see that, as of 2025.03, there is now a way to automatically download and update the IDE (posit-dev/positron#6296). Does this mean that the Scoop bucket will no longer be updated? What's your view on this?

The bucket will keep being updated as it is automatically done (except when problems like currently). Though we'll need to see how the automated udpate behave, because we may need to opt-out of for scoop installed version as I am not sure this will play well. (as the bucket version won't be the same as scoop updated one). So I'll probably try to add a configuration to opt out it.

If someone wants to use auto update from positron, no need of scoop install IMO.

[atsyplenkov]

@cderv Thanks for solving this so quickly and appreciate the in-depth explanation