Ping a server and show update notice if there's a new version

Question

Ping a server and show update notice if there's a new version

karan opened this issue 10 years ago · comments

Karan Goel commented 10 years ago

I like how npm does it.

When the user runs the command, ping some server, and if there's a newer version, show a banner for updating joe.

Abhinav Patil · Answer 1 · Wed Jan 28 2015 12:05:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hey karan,

I'm looking to get into contributing to open source. I was wondering if I could tackle this issue? I'm just wondering what server I should ping.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Ubadub

Karan Goel · Answer 2 · Sun Feb 08 2015 01:56:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@Ubadub, Thanks for wanting to helps. We would need to write a simple HTTP server. I think it would be best if I did this issue, since it isn't a priority right now.

Levi Voorintholt · Answer 3 · Wed Jul 08 2015 02:49:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

For this issues you don't even need your own HTTP server. All one has to do is check if there is an higher version number available in the json returned by https://api.github.com/repos/karan/joe/tags. Using the name attribute as version number of course.