Is there any development or module been considered for auto upgrade. One that you can do from within the admin without having to download the upgrade patch. Of course the manual upgrate should remain.
It is very common to edit and modify wordpress too. But, they do a much better job of separating files. If Boonex could come up with a automatic update they would attract a few more people. The manual upgrade discourages a lot of people. I modify wordpress and I understand that hitting the auto update button will do away with some modifications, but it is a heck of a lot simpler to go through a few files than going through dolphin's 5000+ files to accomplish similar. There is just a ton of files see more in dolphin that really could be reduced substantially. You could reapply wordpress modifications in minutes, dolphin would take hours and possibly days to update.