On 7 dic, 19:04, Will McGugan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a small application for which I would like to write an update > > manager. I assume that the basics of it is to compare versions of the > > user's current application and a new one store in a new file on a > > particular URL. > Dont think there is a standard way of doing it. The way I have done it > in my applications is to keep an ini file containing the version number, > which is downloaded and compared against the version of the app. That > part is trivial to implement in python with urllib. I just point the > user at the download url when there is a new version. It would require a > little more effort if you want to have some kind of automatic update...
There is a sample script (in tools/versioncheck in your Python directory) you could use as a starting point. Not a big deal... -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
