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Would sure be nice if Unity Hub CLI could install versions that aren't the latest patch

Discussion in 'Unity Hub' started by vtclayton, Aug 13, 2019.

  1. vtclayton

    vtclayton

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    For example, if I execute:

    "Unity Hub.exe" -- --headless install -v 2018.4.5f1 -m android windows


    (at this time, 2018.4.6f1 is the latest 2018.4 patch), then nothing happens.

    However, executing 

    "Unity Hub.exe" -- --headless install -v 2019.1.14f1 -m android windows


    (at this time, 2019.1.14f1 is the latest 2019.1 patch), then it does get installed.

    (well, I have to manually click through the UAC, and the Unity Hub Window is created/foregrounded, so it's not exactly headless at all, but I'm sure you're aware of that).

    I want to be able to install not-exactly-the-latest versions of patches, because I don't want to force anyone to update at an inconvenient time.
     
    vtclayton, Aug 13, 2019
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  2. vtclayton

    vtclayton

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    OK, maybe it's just inconsistent...

    "Unity Hub.exe" -- --headless install -v 2019.2.0f1 -m android windows


    doesn't seem to do anything, even though 2019.2.0f1 shows up in

    "Unity Hub.exe" -- --headless editors


    Oh! The previous version hadn't finished installing. I got that message many minutes later.

    An error message that it was busy doing something else would be nice, but even better:

    The whole "run the command but it's backgrounded and you don't know when it's finished" paradigm on the Command Line is not one I'm used to. Hopefully this is an artifact of it being in preview, and Unity plans on changing it to not exit before the command is done, ... right?
     
    vtclayton, Aug 13, 2019
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  3. AbrahamDUnity

    AbrahamDUnity

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    Hi,

    Thank you for trying out the Hub CLI :D! It's not perfect right now but we'll work on it progressively. You can expect more verbose feedback and install information in the near future.

    As for installing different versions of Unity, you can install any version in the download archive (5.6 and above) from the CLI. Just add the 
    --changeset <changeset>
    option along with the version. You can find the changeset at the bottom of a Unity version's release notes page.

    I hope that settles it. Don't hesitate to post more feedback or issues you encounter using the Hub.

    Best,
     
    AbrahamDUnity, Aug 13, 2019
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  4. Baste

    Baste

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    This seems like an oversight. You have the information about what changeset matches what version, so the hub should be able to figure out without us having to provide it.

    The changeset is nice if we need to specify some non-public version of the editor (console version or whatever), but by default writing "install 2018.4.5f1" should just do that.



    I know that you're really stubborn about the Hub not including all the versions we need in the GUI, even though we need them there. Like, you're fighting hard to have your software be bad for some strange PR/whatever reason. But the CLI isn't visible in the GUI, so you could decide to have the CLI not be bad.
    Food for thought.
     
    Baste, Aug 14, 2019
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  5. DanielTG

    DanielTG

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    @Baste

    It’s not an oversight but unfortunately was a limitation we had to accept for this first implementation of the Hub CLI. What you described as install <version> is what we want to implement but requires more work on our backend.

    As far as the UI goes, it’s been mentioned several times before, but just to re-iterate it’s simply about listing the latest “supported” versions of Unity.

    Thanks,
    Daniel
     
    DanielTG, Aug 14, 2019
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  6. AbrahamDUnity

    AbrahamDUnity

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    Also, we're working on this for the next CLI iteration. It's coming.
     
    AbrahamDUnity, Aug 14, 2019
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  7. MikuriChan

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    @DanielTG @AbrahamDUnity

    Adding support for local files would also be a great update.
    I mean pointing to the complete Unity Editor Installer File and Modules like Android to avoid downloading 300 times the same files in our school.
     
    MikuriChan, Aug 29, 2019
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  8. AbrahamDUnity

    AbrahamDUnity

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    We're working on that too. We're aware that re-downloading the same stuff over all machines in the same network isn't really efficient :D. Expect that feature to arrive Soonish™.

    Cheers,
     
    AbrahamDUnity, Aug 29, 2019
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