NAnateb2022·Jun 4, 2023Submission
Go-update: Build self-updating go programs
3 points · Open discussioninconshreveable
go-update
Go2013–2023
inconshreveable / go-update
go-update
Build self-updating Golang programs
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Build self-updating Golang programs
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Observed mentions: 2013-07-21 22:50:20 UTC to 2023-06-04 19:59:39 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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5 sourcesAsk HN: Any open source alternatives to Sparkle or Squirrel for Mac app updates?
Looking for something that is less opinionated, ideally written in Swift, and that doesn't provide its own UI. I'm a big fan of go-update ^1 for Go apps. It's stupid simple and easy to integrate with an update API since it doesn't care about anything except being passed an update and a signature. Know of anybody working on something like that for Mac apps?
^1: https://github.com/inconshreveable/go-update
1 points · Open discussionIt utilizes https://github.com/inconshreveable/go-update, which updates itself by replacing its executable file with the new version downloaded from Keygen's API (which handles checking if an upgrade is available). The new version will then be available after a restart of the executable.
Since Go apps are distributed as a single binary file, it makes it pretty painless to update them compared to e.g. a typical desktop app.
In Show HN: Keygen SDK for licensing and distributing self-updating Go appsOne feature I miss from distributing on RubyGems or PyPI is easy update functionality. Thankfully, go-update[1] looks to solve the problem by making it easy to create self-updating Go binaries.
[1]: https://github.com/inconshreveable/go-update
In On Distributing Command Line Applications: Why I Switched From Ruby to GoHi zek, glad you like ngrok! Progrium and I have been talking about combining efforts recently. I'm going to be extracting out the tunneling component of ngrok into a library that will be used by both ngrok and a new version of localtunnel which will have all of the stability (and features like tcp tunenling and custom hostnames) that you enjoy with ngrok.
You'll still want to use ngrok if you want to do any traffic inspection or request replays.
Lastly, I have some new features coming up for ngrok including the ability for it to auto-update without your intervention so that I can push features more rapidly without bothering everyone to update every other day. I've open sourced the code to do it as a separate library (https://github.com/inconshreveable/go-update), and I'll be writing a blog post about the techniques necessary to make it w
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ork. Stay tuned!