Auto updater

[TIBTHINK]

for an auto-updater to work you have two options on how to approach this

1. have the plugin pull the source code from git and compile it on server startup.
2. (easier option in the long run) compile the plugin and then release it on Github or Jenkins for GitHub, I suggest making a JSON file with the latest release and then having it download the latest version. for Jenkins, I believe it will compile your latest push and then auto release the jar

[TIBTHINK]

i was able to make a python script that does just that, using GitHub's API to find and update new releases

pwd = os.getcwd()
class plugins():
    def github_downloader(url, name, sub=1):
        dynmap_response = requests.get(url)
        data = dynmap_response.json()
        spigot_number = len(data[1]['assets'])
        download_link = print(data[1]['assets'][spigot_number - sub]['browser_download_url'])
        open(pwd + "/plugins/" + name, 'wb').write(requests.get(download_link).content)

plugins.github_downloader("https://api.github.com/repos/webbukkit/dynmap/releases", "Dynmap.jar")
plugins.github_downloader("https://api.github.com/repos/PryPurity/WorldBorder/releases", "WorldBorder.jar")
plugins.github_downloader("https://api.github.com/repos/EssentialsX/Essentials/releases", "EssentialsX.jar", 8 )

[mfnalex]

But doesn't that require to also have maven, JDK etc installed?