Updater Logic

A few people may find the updater process used here interesting. It's pretty simple, so here's a run-through:

The updater queries Github's API for this repository, and gets the most recent release version. If the newest version doesn't match the internal version of the program, it then makes a second query to look up the aggregate file differences between versions.

• Query the difference between release version and current_version, and run through the logic below for each file in 'files'

  • Demo Query Link

• Each file object has a 'status' field, to determine what overall has changed since the supplied earlier version.

  • The direct download URLs for each file are located in 'raw_url' of each file object.

File Status:

• renamed: change existing file 'previous_filename' into 'filename'
• modified: redownload
• added: download
• removed: delete 'filename'