On Thursday, 26 November 2020 at 12:13:59 UTC, vnr wrote:
Hello,
I have a program written in D which is open-source on GitHub.
I would appreciate it if, when I release a new version, users
would be notified by the program and that it offers an
automatic update, i.e. the user doesn't have to reinstall the
whole repository himself, but that it is updated automatically.
I haven't found any packages that directly meet my needs, but
in the meantime I imagine that I will have to use the GitHub
API, as well as Curl to make such a system.
Do you have any resources or suggestions as to how I could
implement this? Thank you!
Auto-updates of an installed app (.ie. if that's what you want)
is done from the app's installation side of things... App Store
(with a few exceptions of course). On Windows, Microsoft's new
packaging stack supports that [1]. You can even set it up with
your CI/CD pipelines...e.g. GitHub Actions.
On Linux, both Flatpak and Snap all provide suck functionality.
1.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/desktop/desktop-to-uwp-packaging-dot-net#:~:text=%20Setup%20the%20Windows%20Application%20Packaging%20Project%20in,make%20sure%20to%20set%20the%20Minimum...%20More%20
