This here is a java program for managing your program's versions.
When you run the program, it checks a website to see the latest version. If you're out of date, it then downloads the latest version and (if it's a .zip file) unzips it. Simple and effective.
Requirements:
Web hosting for your programs versions and the version file.
Can be downloaded at http://storkme.org/vcs - readme is included. It also has a .bat & .sh script to update the program itself should it need updating. It's fully maintained by me.
A config file looks something like this:
| code: |
# The common vcs file, where we check for the latest version
Latest_Version http://site.com/Latest.vcs # The (http) URL of the latest version of your project. # We use % to represent the version. E.G. # if the URL is http://site.com/project-*.jar and the # version is 1.0.3 then VCS will attempt to download # http://site.com/project-1.0.3.jar Download_URL http://site.com/project-*.jar # The current version of your project that we have Cur_Version 1.0.6 # Where you want the files to be extracted to (if it's a zip # archive.) If not, it will just be saved there. Destination_Dir ./build/ |
I use it to manage all my projects. It's nothing special but it's kind of useful.
I recently updated it to include a gui panel for displaying how far through the download we are. This doesn't really matter for smaller files, but for larger ones it might help
When I get some time I'll comment a lot of the code and update it.
If you have any suggestions please post here.