auto update

[lkeegan]

A nice to have feature would be an auto-update:

• app checks if there is a newer version of vstt on PyPI
• if so, prompt user to update, do pip install --upgrade, ask user to restart?

Doesn't seem to be a good existing library for doing this though.

[lkeegan]

pypi provide a json dump from which we can extract the latest version number: json.info.version

https://pypi.org/pypi/vstt/json

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[lkeegan]

pip recommends running it in a sub-process:

https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/user_guide/#using-pip-from-your-program

subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, '-m', 'pip', 'install', 'my_package'])