Tdesktop: No check for updates if running with -many

[RadRussianRus]

Steps to reproduce

1. Start TDesktop with -many option
2. Go to Settings > Advanced > click "Check for updates"

Expected behaviour

It should check for updates.

Actual behaviour

No update check happens.

Configuration

Operating system: Windows 10
Version of Telegram Desktop: 1.4.7 beta

P.S. If update isn't allowed with -many, why show it?
P.S.2. I don't know why would you ever need multiple copies of Telegram with same account, settings and session. You can use -workdir for much better behavior.

[john-preston]

@RadRussianRus -many and -workdir should be removed, just use several portable versions for that.

[RadRussianRus]

@john-preston Why remove -workdir? It's actually useful. You don't need to update every Telegram EXE, you can just update one.

[john-preston]

@RadRussianRus Because working with several instances of one executable doesn't support autoupdate, won't open t.me links from browsers correctly and generally isn't supported very well. This was a hack (not meant to be widely used) that is working much better with several portable versions.

[RadRussianRus]

@john-preston

1. It works fine with autoupdate. -many causes problems, but -workdir alone works file (but I'm closing all other instances before updating, just in case).
2. Opening links from browser correctly is pain with portables too. You can't choose instance anyway, you're depending on registry or xdg-open.

If there was multi-account support, I wouldn't bother.

[john-preston]

@RadRussianRus Currently multiple portable versions is as close as it gets to multiple account support. The only argument against it is autoupdate working independently for each instance. But is that really a problem? They'll download slowly in the background and be applied the next time you launch them, why not?

[RadRussianRus]

@john-preston That depends on how much accounts you have. 2 won't be a problem, but 5 may be annoying and confusing. You would need to restart 5 instances after every single update. Plus, it's at least 5 x 44 = 220 MB.
And another thing: with -workdir you can even use folder on another drive (for better file management or backup), you don't need to put EXE there to work.
Maybe it's a hack, but it's useful.

[Aokromes]

maybe allow to enable / disable autoupdate from command line?

[RadRussianRus]

There is an -externalupdater option for that, IIRC.

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