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karan / joe

:running: A .gitignore magician in your command line
http://karan.github.io/joe/
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Ping a server and show update notice if there's a new version #32

Closed karan closed 8 years ago

karan commented 9 years ago

I like how npm does it.

When the user runs the command, ping some server, and if there's a newer version, show a banner for updating joe.

Ubadub commented 9 years ago

Hey karan,

I'm looking to get into contributing to open source. I was wondering if I could tackle this issue? I'm just wondering what server I should ping.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks, Ubadub

karan commented 9 years ago

@Ubadub, Thanks for wanting to helps. We would need to write a simple HTTP server. I think it would be best if I did this issue, since it isn't a priority right now.

gamerlv commented 9 years ago

For this issues you don't even need your own HTTP server. All one has to do is check if there is an higher version number available in the json returned by https://api.github.com/repos/karan/joe/tags. Using the name attribute as version number of course.