Will & Gabriel Well I will then think of something. Thank you very much. I do appreciate your help. M.E.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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
