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thomas-ashcraft / alienware_arena_helper

Helps you to easily earn daily ARP and improves site with usable features
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Add updateURL for automatic updates #25

Closed NoXPhasma closed 1 year ago

NoXPhasma commented 4 years ago

This adds the @updateURL to the script with the URL to the raw js file. This enables automatic updates through the Browser addon.

thomas-ashcraft commented 4 years ago

According to documentation, if the @updateURL key is omitted then the original installation path will be used to download file to check @version key for update. https://sourceforge.net/p/greasemonkey/wiki/Metadata_Block/#updateurl

It is intended to use in pair with .meta.js file, which should contain script info and more importantly - @version key. That allow updating procedure not to download a whole script file just to check a one string.

But I strongly beleive in nowadays developers should use streams in such cases and stopping the downloading when whole string with @version key is received.

Also, forcing @updateURL key to github means forcing people from other install sources to switch. Im trying to maintain a mirror at https://openuserjs.org/scripts/thomas-ashcraft/Alienware_Arena_helper Though they didn't make it easier by rejecting auto-updates because icon from our current meta info (original AWA site icon actually) isn't up to some imaginery standarts which they didn't even bothered to document.

You know... maybe we really should to force people to switch to github source. Should sleep with this thought and decide at fresh head. Maybe even someone will comment on this.

NoXPhasma commented 4 years ago

I've added a meta.js file and changed the update url to it.

thomas-ashcraft commented 4 years ago

That's exactly what I don't want to do - maintain another file every release.