auto-update

I have written a script that will keep itself up to date by downloading the latest version from a website and overwriting the running script. I am not sure what the best way to restart the script after it has been updated. Any ideas? I don't really want to have a separate update script. oh and it has to work on both linux/windows too. In Linux, or any other form of unix, os.execl and friends are a good choice for this -- you just need to re-exec sys.executable with the same parameters it was executed with last time ( sys.argv , more or less) or any variant thereof if you need to inform your

Many programs include an auto-updater, where the program occasionally looks online for updates, and then downloads and applies any updates that are found. Program bugs are fixed, supporting files are modified, and things are (usually) made better. Unfortunately no matter how hard I look, I can't find information on this process anywhere. It seems like the auto-updaters that have been implemented have either been proprietary or not considered important. It seems fairly easy to implement the system that looks for updates on a network and downloads them if they are available. That part of the

This question already has an answer here: Auto-update library for .NET? [closed] 12 answers We are in a process of developing a really complex system consisting of several WCF services, ASP.NET MVC applications, administration tools (Windows Forms apps)... Some of those, will have instances running on several servers. We are looking for a good auto update solution for such a system. Most likely, we would need a separate auto update application (service) that will do the job, or some centralized admin application that will know about versions of all installed instances and do the update

I'm developing a non-public Android app, i.e. the app won't be available in the global Android Market. The app will be installed on a limited number of clients, e.g. by using an apk file. How can I enable an auto-update functionality in this app? I see different potential options (I do not know if those are technically hard or even impossible to implement or if there are any existing functionalities that can be reused): On each launch the app tests if a new version exists (by requesting a server), if so downloads the new apk and replaces itself with the new version. Use (or develop?) a

I've been thinking of rolling my own code for enabling my Delphi application to update seamlessly as I'll be going for "release often, release early" mentality furthermore. There are various Delphi solutions (both freeware and paid) out there and I'd like to ask if you've been using any of them or simply went on with your own solutions in this area. Any comments on the auto-update topic are welcome. Years ago I wrote a simple tool which is started instead of the real program, checks for updates, loads and installs them (if any are available), and finally starts the real application. There are