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Package control messages

#1

hello,
anytime i open up Sublime text (windows build 3114), it opens up an additional tab with some text and a title “Package Control Messages”.

Is this a bug ? I can’t get rid of it. closing the tab doesn’t help as next startup it again re opens.

I’ve had this bug forever but i’d like to have it fixed.

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#2

What does the text say when this happens?

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#3

it mentions this text.

Package Control Messages

Package Control:

Version 3.1 Release Notes

Package Control continues its focus on polish and fixing edge-case bugs. Some
of the changes in this version include:

  • quick panel for Install Package now stays open on Windows with recent
    versions of ST3, even when focus is lost
  • new “downloader_precedence” setting to allow users to use specific HTTP
    backend due to network proxy or SSL issues
  • added Install Local Dependency command for package developers to more
    easily deal with dependencies during development
  • improved handling of git/hg package upgrade errors
  • better handling of locked .sublime-package files on Windows
  • performance improvements for users with a large number of open windows

For package developers, the list of available dependencies has been growing:
https://github.com/wbond/package_control_channel/blob/master/repository/dependencies.json

Enjoy!

Version 3.0 Release Notes

**** Windows Sublime Text 3 Users ****

Due to a bug in Package Control 2.0, Windows ST3 users will need to open the
Sublime Text console (ctrl+`) and execute the following Python to properly
upgrade. All other users may ignore this part of the message.

Make sure NOT to copy the leading two spaces, or an “unexpected indent” error
will occur.

import urllib.request,os,sys; exec(“if sys.version_info < (3,) or os.name != ‘nt’: raise OSError(‘This code is for Windows ST3 only!’)”); pr=‘Preferences.sublime-settings’; ip=‘ignored_packages’; n=‘Package Control’; s=sublime.load_settings(pr); ig=s.get(ip); ig.append(n); s.set(ip,ig); sublime.save_settings(‘Preferences.sublime-settings’); pf=n+’.sublime-package’; urllib.request.install_opener(urllib.request.build_opener(urllib.request.ProxyHandler())); by=urllib.request.urlopen(‘https://packagecontrol.io/’+pf.replace(’ ‘,’%20’)).read(); open(os.path.join(sublime.installed_packages_path(),pf),‘wb’).write(by); ig.remove(n); s.set(ip,ig); sublime.save_settings(pr); print(‘Package Control: 3.0.0 upgrade successful!’)

Package Control 3.0 adds a bunch of polish, improving the Sublime Text
experience for users and package developers:

  • improved upgrades of themes, color schemes and syntaxes
  • dependency support
  • SSL for Linux
  • new secondary Windows HTTP backend
  • patches for Python in Sublime Text 2 on Windows
  • commands to easily remove channels and repositories
  • an events API for packages
  • improved documentation

As of July 2014, I now work for myself. This has allowed me to spend more time
working on open source software, including Package Control. If you appreciate
the work I’ve done, please consider a small donation. If even 5% of regular
users donated the price of a coffee or beer, that would cover quite a bit of
my development time! See https://packagecontrol.io/about for options.

Some recent Package Control stats:

  • every weekday over 1M JSON requests hit the channel server
  • in December, the channel server will transmit 4TB+ of compressed JSON
  • users have installed, upgraded or removed 85M+ packages since late 2011
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#4

There was a github issue for PackageControl back in January related to this.

Did you do what the text says and copy and paste the python code given into the console to upgrade? According to the issue, the person that reported it had tried it once and it didn’t work but the second time he tried it, it did. So if you did try it before, doing it again may help.

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#5

Alternatively, wipe all trace of Package Control from your Packages/ and Installed Packages/ folders and install fresh.

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