Performous Auto-updater

Baklap4 commented 2 years ago

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Feature

What did you expect to see?

Performous to come with an auto-update functionality.

Motivation for this

After the upcoming 'big' release we'd like to release more often. Therefore it's good practice to have some kind of auto-updater available.

This updater will check the current installed version against the latest here on github. If it's not equal to eachother prompt the user that there is an update available.

Todo list

[ ] Check for new version while starting up. (Can be done while loading everything)
[ ] If there is a newer version: Download new version
[ ] Update to the new version
[ ] Show a small list of changes in game after update
[ ] Config setting to disable auto update. Default we will auto-update
[ ] Config setting to opt in for beta-releases. Default will be off

Baklap4 commented 2 years ago

I guess we can use the github api to give us the latest release artefacts -> https://api.github.com/repos/performous/performous/releases/latest

Baklap4 commented 2 years ago

Currently the daily build apt-repo isn't up-to-date and lists performous 1.1

Baklap4 commented 2 years ago

So to sumarise what's been said in discord:

Linux uses a package manager, all updates should come from there
- We have a nightly build PPA but that's only for ubuntu + it hasn't been updated since 1.1
- I'm currently talking with Packagecloud which supports:
  - deb packages
  - rpm packages
  - Note: The GH-Action from packagecloud only supports deb packages i think
Windows & Mac would benefit from an auto-updater as described in this issue

performous / performous