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rjw57 / yt

Experiments with the YouTube API
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No -U option to auto update to the latest version #19

Closed javier-lopez closed 11 years ago

javier-lopez commented 11 years ago

Just as youtube-dl I think it could be a great idea if yt could autoupdate itself once installed

rjw57 commented 11 years ago

Hmm... I think it'd be better if I pulled my finger out and updated pypi more often. Then one can update via pip/easy_install.

javier-lopez commented 11 years ago

Hi Rich,

Thanks for answering, I was thinking on this option because I plan to package this program for debian|ubuntu, however once it gets packaged there will be paperwork to do in order to update it, an option to auto update would be a great workaround for people who cannot wait. By the way, I've not found any license in yt, is it public?, best regards

rjw57 commented 11 years ago

Ah yes. My bad. Added in 6e57773. Assuming that the Debian packaging is non-surprising, wouldn't yt then be installed in the system Python directory? Then you'd need to run with -U as root and, further, it would change files behind the package manager's back. I suspect both of those are non-ideal for Debian. In any case, I'm not sure how one would implement -U without simply calling into pip/easy_install. (Which should be the correct thing to do assuming I keep on top of #21.)

For the moment, I'm closing this as a WONTFIX. Pull-requests implementing the option are welcome, but they'll have to be clean.